does anyone know how to change all images to greyscale in InDesign without having to go manually change them in photoshop and reinsert them back into InDesign? i'm looking for an option INSIDE indesign that can do this for me.

I came across this problem before when I did development reports for my assignment briefs and I just gave up. I don't think it's possible.

Cannot, sadly.

Even if you could though I'd still do it through Photoshop since you have better control over DPI and whatnot. InDesign isn't photo editing software after all.

yeah but making color images black and white is hardly "photo editing". i mean it's practical that it should be in this. what if you do a whole project under the assumption that you're printing full color, only to be told that cost restrictions are knocking you down to 1 or 2 colors. it's something that's practically needed for printing situations.

I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!!! how can they look over such a needed function? i know i could export the whole thing to a greyscale pdf, but that sucks because i don't want it to be all greyscale. i just want to change the photos so that i can still print the rest of the newsletter with red accents.


man f*ck the world!!! i don't wanna do this shit manually.

quit bitching

stfu bitch

Yeah greyscale seems like a trivial conversion but it actually matters quite a bit how you go about doing it cus it will affect how it looks when printed (i.e. greyscale images definitely require a lower DPI than colour images to prevent bleeding and preserve details). InDesign's for for designing physical, tangible things so attention to detail is a must. So making something b/w IS non-trivial photo editing, and there are many schools of thought, actually, on what the best way is to make an image greyscale.

Problems associated with sudden changes in costs should be blamed on management of the project rather than the program. Sorry man, you're gonna have to do it manually :( But honestly it's really easy to get used to converting a mass lot of photos into greyscale, I had to do that plenty of times when I was working on a yearbook, you just sort of memorize the motions after 3 photos.

it's not even the changing them i'm not looking forward to, it's reinserting all of them that i wish i didn't have to do. i have to present a 1 color version for every full color version. i have to do two different designs in general. i figured i could design two full color, and easily change them into a 1 color version samples. i guess this is gonna take longer than i thought.


always has to run into problems

I totally forgot about the pain of reinserting photos. Ugh.

Good luck!! Sorry that InDesign sucks!!

EDIT// Found this, uh...does it help?

http://indesignsecrets.com/convert-color-i...o-grayscale.php

update on this, i ended up doing it manually. printed all the versions out and then the lady didn't even give a shit about the black and white photo ones. all she cared about was the full colors. f*ck bitches.

I asked the my professor who is the program director to the graphics department at my school. She told me that it is not possible unless you are using flattened tiff, you can convert those to grayscale, but not the entire design.

hey, while we're talking about indesign, someone show me how to activate my fonts using suitcase fusion 2. i use an older version at school that i can't find for home, and i can't figure out how to be able to see my fonts because this stupid program is so much more complicated now. so, someone help me activate my fonts so i can see them at home.

You can double click the font. Or, highlight the font and click the big green (for permanent), or big blue (for temporary) button. Or, right-click the font and select activate font.

It may not show up in the program until you restart the program. Or it may be in a weird location (ie not in alphabetical order).