: Losing outlined text from inDesign to JPG Ok ... I designed a book cover in Adobe InDesign. The book is an anthology, Hellfire Lounge #4 ... The subtile "Refelections of Evil" is typed in

@Megan533

Convert your type to Outlines (select the type, then hit Command + Shift + O), then make your pdf/jpg.

No idea why it works, but it should.

Edit: You can also check —


in the Attributes pallette, make sure the piece is not set to overprint.
You can try setting your yellow type to Knockout Group.




The above should fix the problem (I couldn't actually recreate the issue), but if it doesn't:

Change the way Indesign Flattens your strokes.
Goto Edit /Transparency Flattener Presets

You'll notice that the High Res setting does not Covert Strokes to Outlines, but the other presets do.



With the High Res preset selected, make a new Preset.

Check the box for converting strokes to outlines.



Then when you export to pdf, select your new Transparency Flattener Preset here:



That will force the stroke itself to outlines, which should make Photoshop interpret it correctly.


Another way to get around all this is to just Export to a JPG directly from Indesign.


— All that being said, in Indesign you don't need to stack your type to add the stroke. You could just add a stroke to the yellow text itself and be done with it. I believe stacking the text objects is the root of the problem.

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