InDesign

[JennyBee]

Hi!

I am new to InDesign and am laying out a journal to be printed by a commercial printer. Some of the articles submitted for the journal will have tables/figures and charts. Some of the tables/figures/charts were done in Illustrator or Photoshop, which I will save as TIFF files and place. One person said they have a Word file that they did the text and graph in and I am not sure how to import it. Can a graph from Word be imported to InDesign? Am I better off recreating it or printing and scanning it?

Thank you so much!

[PrintDriver]

You can open the Word graph in Illy and go from there.
Copy/paste rather.

[budafist]

Or you can save the word file as a pdf and use that.

[jimking]

This can be tricky. I have been able to import Word docs but as a printer I've had issues with color seperations. Pitstop is a program we use in the industry to correct these problems. Do you have MS Word? If you do, you maybe able to export the word file as a pdf or your client can. You can place pfds in InDesign but watch for color problems such as 4/c black text and rgb graphics. Illustrator should be saved as a eps or AI file not a tiff.

[urstwile]

I would save the Word file as a PDF, and then open it in Illustrator. I've done this before. Plus most Word graphics are pretty yucky looking, so I'll do that as a start off point and then improve it from with Illustrator.

[PrintDriver]

I am sooooo glad I don't have to worry about seps.
Those Word docs are in RGB too. Can wreak havoc with color matching if one isn't careful.

[JennyBee]

Thank you for all your replies and suggestions, PrintDriver, budafist, jimking & Urstwile!

Sincerely,

Jen :)