vectors from illustrator 10 to indesign CS?

[totomode]

Hello everyone
I am sure this has been asked before but I cant find the thread. This is driving me crazy!!!

In the old days (illustrator 8, Indesign 2 and system 9 (MAC)) it was like this: I draw something in illustrator, copy the chape. Paste it into indesign - and then the vectors are active indesign objects, that can be edited and filled with a photo for example.

NOW all I get is no paste from Illustrator and if I import the design from illustrator it is just image - not active vectors.

I am sure there is a way back to the good old days, but I cant find it.

:(

[Ghastly]

Hi...welcome to the forum. :cool:

If your pasted vector object has just one bounding box..and looks suspiciously like a raster...check to see if it isn't a grouped object

[Broacher]

It's likely in your AI 'File Handling and Clipboard' Preferences. From AI help file:

The Clipboard is particularly useful for importing paths because paths are copied to the Clipboard as PostScript language descriptions. Artwork copied to the Clipboard is pasted in PICT format in most applications. However, some applications take the PDF version (such as InDesign) or the AICB version. PDF preserves transparency; AICB lets you specify whether you want to preserve the overall appearance of the selection or copy the selection as a set of paths (which can be useful in Photoshop).

To specify copying preferences:

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Files & Clipboard (Windows) or Illustrator > Preferences > Files & Clipboard (Mac OS).
2. To copy the selection as PDF, select PDF.
3. To copy the selection as AICB, select AICB and select one of the following:
* To discard any transparency in the copied artwork, select Preserve Paths.
* To flatten any transparency, maintain the copied artwork's appearance, and preserve overprinted objects, select Preserve Appearance and Overprints.


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The only thing I would dispute is transparency using the PDF option. If I select AICS clipboard to be PDF only, it always comes in flattened for me, both in ID2, and IDCS.

The only way I know of to preserve transparency between an outside of ID object and the ID page is to place it as a native AI file. And for that, you have to save it with "Preserve PDF Compatability' on. Unfortunately, you cannot directly edit the sub components of such a file once it's inside ID.

[totomode]

It works again!!!

thanks a million

totomode :)