I want to thank all of you for your comments and in particular Steve for the fair and fantastic review he did for ID2Office. I represent Recosoft the creators of ID2Office. I could start over with just Acrobat and construct a better solution than what I ended up trying to use ID2Office. For someone like me who does this kind of work maybe once a year, it’s not worth the trouble. For someone who has to produce a ton of content for Office, this may be more useful. My personal review of the PowerPoint part of the tool is: A lot of money for a badly flawed solution. I was under deadline (of course) and so kludged my way through a three-app +plugin process to get to a good solution that worked for my client. Acrobat exported a pptx that maintained the individual images in full quality, but combined aligned text boxes into a long table (!!!) while ID2Office maintained my individual type objects, but merged the graphics. I ended up using a workaround that combined the Recosoft plugin with the Acrobat Export to Powerpoint option. I have very recent experience with ID2Office and had the same issue as Wolfgang, with individual images (plus a couple of other layout objects) being combined into a single graphic. To continue reading, please sign in, or sign up for a membership today. The plug-in is useful for professional designers who need to turn a lot of complex InDesign files into other formats. It’s with this in mind that Recosoft has created ID2Office, a plug-in for InDesign that turns documents into usable, editable Word and PowerPoint files.
InDesign, on the other hand, is the layout program that gives the user full control over every aspect of a document’s appearance, without trying to dictate your approach. It can be difficult in either program to create precise, attractive layouts without the interface taking over and preventing you from doing so. But their ubiquity doesn’t mean they’re the best tools for the job both suffer from awkward layout tools that try too hard to second-guess you. Word and PowerPoint are, like it or not, the world’s most-used applications for word processing and presentations.
Steve Caplin reviews a solution from moving InDesign layouts into Word, PowerPoint, and Keynote. This article appeared in Issue 126 of InDesign Magazine.
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