Best practice from illustrator to indesign

So im a student and Im just figuring things out...
what is the best practice of importing from illustrator to indesign?
making an eps file?
what is an eps file? is it editable in indesign or illustrator?
thanks

Actually, in the general case, Adobe Illustrator is absolutely not a general purpose EPS editor. Adobe Illustrator is capable of fully and properly editing only EPS files saved from the current or earlier versions of Adobe Illustrator and even then, you must have any and all fonts referenced by the EPS file, even if the font is embedded in the EPS file, installed on your computer system. Adobe Illustrator's imaging model is a subset of Adobe PostScript and as such, opening an EPS file generated by any software other than the current or earlier version of Adobe Illustrator may yield corrupted, modified, or otherwise incorrect results and this is especially true if the EPS references more than one color space. This includes EPS saved or exported from Acrobat and InDesign.
- Dov

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You can copy/paste from Illy to ID by selecting the text with the type tool in Illy and then pasting it into ID. You will not be able to maintain the formatting. If you want to maintain the appearance the text will be converted to outlines.
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JJMack wrote:
SAS_Creative wrote:
When we import something from illustrator or indesign as a smart object, for some reason the objects width and height will not keep their dimensions in proportion.
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Make some test if illustrator and indesign have setting for pixel aspect ratio and DPI resolution. Make sure all documents have the same pixel aspect ratio and same DPI resolution and that the vector object to be imported are not larger then the Photoshop document their being imported to.
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