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Illustrator shapes wont paste in ID CS5 as vectors…

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    • September 15, 2010 at 12:27 pm #57015
      albastru22
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      I really liked the possibility to paste shapes from illustrator into indesign as vectors. It seems that in Indesign cs5 it is no longer possible, no matter how simple the illustrator shapes are. The thing still works with illustrator cs5 and indesign cs4…. so I use that and save the indd from cs 4 and open that in indesign cs5. Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong (maybe some options…).

    • September 15, 2010 at 3:32 pm #57021
      David Blatner
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      That is odd. It should work. Check clipboard handling pane in Preferences to make sure Prefer PDF when Pasting is turned off? Make sure AICB is turned on in Illustrator's preferences?

      Maybe rebuild preference files.

    • September 15, 2010 at 11:10 pm #57022
      albastru22
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      I verified the options in clipboard handling in id cs5 – it makes no difference, the shapes are treated as an object in id, not vectors. I don't think it's illustrator's fault because from the same illustrator cs5 it works well when I take shapes to id cs4, but not id cs5. I will try rebuilding of preferences.

      Can anybody confirm that this feature works as it should in id cs5 ? Anybody tried it?

    • September 15, 2010 at 11:31 pm #57023
      Roland
      Member

      I copy & paste logo's and simple vector shapes from Illustrator CS5 into InDesign CS5 quite a lot, and have yet to have a problem with it. I assume you've troubleshooted this by copying both simple shapes (rectangles, circles) and more complex shapes (grouped shapes, text) from Illustrator into InDesign?

    • September 16, 2010 at 12:10 am #57026
      albastru22
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      hmmm, I have to look into that. It works with simple shapes with solid fill, not gradients. I think there's a difference in the way id cs5 and cs4 work on this, but i have to check it first.

    • September 23, 2010 at 6:45 am #57088
      Gfx-Dzine
      Member

      Well me personally only use simple shapes in Indesign (sorry if it seems like cursing to the create-as-much-artwork-as-possible-in-indesign-itself aficionados (Mike? ;) )

      I usually just create the artwork in Illustrator and then link it in Indesign.

      And copying from and pasting to Indesign seems definitely a (big) risk to me that the appearance will not be preserved.

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