HELP!!
kerrie (13 pencils) | Fri, 2008-01-11 14:22Hi
I understand that it is possible to copy and paste from illustrator in to indesign. However, when I tried to do it it wouldn't work, neither did dragging and dropping. So, I placed the image in the document on indesign, however, it was pixelated when I did so. It is a vector image from illustrator and needs to stay a vector image in indesign..... anyone have any ideas? Any help would be very much appreciated as I am rather stuck!!!!
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Export your INDD file to PDF and it will look fine. Files imported into page layout programs such as InDesign may not look OK (for a wide variety of reasons) but they print without problem.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
ok i'll give it a try!! thanks :)
InDesign's default view is set at "Typical Display" settings. You can adjust this by going to View -> Display Performance -> High Quality Display.
I've noticed that if I place certain images and it's in Typical Display, they look way pixelated so the document can process faster. This may not help, but it's something that I had to figure out when I began working in InDesign.
It's strange that you can't copy+paste work directly from Illustrator - I've always been able to do so in CS2 and CS3. What version are you using?
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I have CS, I can do it from photoshop, but not illustrator!
Remember, images will oftentimes look pixelated in ID because a placed image is an 8bit image, not full resolution. Hopefully you don't have any images placed in the Illustrator file? This sort of 'double placing' (my term, not industry standard) can cause printing errors.
You can right or control + click an image and 'view at high resolution', though I only recommend doing this temporarily. It greatly increases your page load times if you don't use preview images for all your placed graphics in ID.
Try to avoid copying and pasting illustrator graphics into your ID files. Mainly because if you use it more than once you're liable to make a change on one in one ID file and it won't update in the other.
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