How can it be done? We have tried but it is coming as an image %26amp; can not modify anything.
Converting files to InDesign CS3 from...
%26gt; How can it be done?
Very slowly.
Why do you need to do this?
Bob
Converting files to InDesign CS3 from...
Are you one of those people who think/wish/demand InDesign to do
i everything
related to any graphic file, web page, or any other object?
%26gt;.. it is coming as an image %26amp; can not modify anything.
You create vector images with Illustrator. You modify vector images with Illustrator.
When you're done, you place the file into a document in InDesign. If you need to modify it again, do so in ... Illustrator.
Well, some people use Illy as a page layout app. It's a bad idea, I know, but it happens, and when someone's layout in Illustrator crosses my desk, I'm expected to rebuild the Illustrator doc in ID before delivery. (The same is true of page layout in Powerpoint or Visio, for what it's worth.)
I don't know the technical limitations of the clipboard here, but my basic technique, when the clipboard rasterizes the content I'm trying to copy and paste from Illy, is to do the C%26amp;P fractionally, to figure out which element is causing the clipboard to rasterize. It very much depends on the content of the Illustrator file, so I can't give you much specific advice. If your Illustrator file has a bunch of layers, try doing it a layer at a time. If your file has mixed raster %26amp; vector content, try copying just the vector stuff.
Makes more sense to me to do the copy paste stuff partly internally in Illy. Make new segregated Illustrator files for artwork that you can place in ID, then move the text as text.
There are huge advantages to linking artwork over pasting it, even if it doesn't rasterize or do other funky stuff.
Peter
Yeah, you're right as usual, Peter, but what if there isn't any vector artwork in the Illustrator file? You'd be aghast at the number of fill-in-the-blank forms I've converted from Illy to ID; files that needed the typographical control of ID, but didn't need any real vector content. You know, where the blanks should have been done with tab leaders, and instead are a forest of underscores, really short text boxes with ''rich black'' stroke, text boxes with fill but no stroke, et cetera. Forms where the only ''artwork'' is a 72 ppi raster logo pasted from a Word file. I could go on for hours in this vein.
You might be assuming that the OP's Illustrator files were made by a competent, non-crazy designer, and that they are mostly vector content and therefore should have been made in Illy in the first place. Over here in nonprofit-land, I can't afford to make such assumptions. So, I'm not going to assume that there's any vector content at all in Masud's files. Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. How can I judge, from the ~20 words that he's posted on the topic? I mean, maybe jongware is absolutely right in assuming that the OP is trying to make ID the do-it-all app, but we have no way to know.
Speaking of which: Hey, Masud, you had best post some details about your project (like the details that Bob requested, for example), unless you want this thread to die.
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