Drag and drop to illustrator

Hi All,
Using CS6 Mac, I am un successful in dragging and dropping a scanned image from PS to Illustrator.
In the past i was able to do this with CS3 PC.
Is this task possible?
Mike

Well, try it the way I suggested in post #1:
with both documents open, drag the layer of the Photoshop scan onto the open Adobe Illustrator document.
(...and I promise not even to ask why you're doing that. )

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im glad that somebody is atleast trying. perhaps i need to be more clear.
i will step by step describe the issue in detail.
1) i open an email that contains an attachment .dxf or .pdf
2) i click on the attachment shown in the email and aprompt comes up asking if i want to open or save the attachment.
3) i select save. (by default it saves to a downloads folder. but i have also chosen to use other folders (when i did that it wouldnt save them)
4) i highlight the downloads arrow on the right top side of my browser and click it
5) it pulls down a list of the files that i USED to be able to click and drag onto my destop, or anyplace i chose
6) used to be when i clicked and held the left mouse button down on top of a file of my choosing it would highlight and as i began to drag, a ghost image would appear of the file i was dragging. showing a (/) symbol next to it showing i couldnt drop the file within the browser and a + simbol showing that i could drop the file when the file was hovering over a place where i could drop the file such as my desktop or other folder. now, when i click and hold on the file.... I DONT get anything. when i drag. nothing follows. while i am "dragging" in the area that is my browser, i get the pointy finger icon. as soon as i enter an area where i could have dropped the file as before, i get my standard cursor arrow.
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What kind of graphic are you talking about? In the Library panel (Illustrator) or CC Library panel (InDesign) graphics are identified with a small label to tell what their source is (Ai, ID, PS, SVG, etc.)
And even though you say you have the latest version, exactly what version of InDesign do you have? You can see it in the About InDesign choice under the InDesign menu (Mac) or Help menu (Windows).

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I realize AI is an illustration program.
Do you realize it is an object-based vector-based program? Do you know the difference between raster-based and vector-based content?
My question seems to be all over the forum but no one has been able to answer other than exporting to these file formats, which make text look awful and of no use....
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Yep. Pretty much.
Hello Adobe! People use transparency on website logos.
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There's a similar option in Outlook and many, many other apps. If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
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i can't answer that specifically because i don't know the
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I'm working on a memory experiment and I want to create a file with a drag and drop feature. I set an image as layer 1, and several images as layer 2. I would like to create a file where people can drag and drop on of the images from layer two onto a slot in layer one. Ideally I would like it to remain stable if the place an image in the slot (meaning if they try to place one of the images from layer 2 into layer 1, I want it to allign perfectly).
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Check if using the Smart Guides snapping is something that could be useful for this. If the size of the objects are exactly the same the snapping is relatively easily when trying to put one object on the place of another. If the sizes are not the same then the center point indicator should be used as a target which require a little bit more effort. However enabling the Smart Guides is not a file feature, the user has to turn it on/off in Illustrator affecting all open documents.

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Working with multiple documents opened at the same time is my everyday workflow and I'm sure I am not alone.
When Adobe introduced tabbed view it was finally a solution to messy multiple opened documents but they omited the biggest advantage in this workflow which is drag and drop of object from one to doc to the other.
In order to do so you have to go to Arrange button (CS5) or Window>Arrange (CS6) and choose to tile or float all documents. That is stupid and inefficient.
What we need is to grab a layer and drag it onto a another doc tab and Photoshop should switch to that tab immediately. You can drag and drop between separate Illustrator and PS files but you can't drag and drop within PS which doesn't make any sense.
Copy and paste is just as not as quick solution as drag and drop.
And while you at it why not make empty space after tabs double clickable to get open document window, kind of like when you have no file opened you can double click the gray area.

I keep tagging my agreement to this everytime I see it requested - from multiple users, including myself.
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Air drag and drop

I've found various info regarding dragging and dropping into air applications. But what about dragging files out?
For example if i made a simple file browser, could i drag files into other programs, e.g illustrator?

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ich verwalte meine Bilder bisher mit Elemetns 6. Ich möchte jedoch auf Lightroom 2 wechseln (Geschwindigkeit). Ich mache hauptsächlich Panorama und HDR. Also Bearbeitung in Externen Programmen. Dazu markiere ich die benötigten Bilder (in der Regel 12-30)in Elements und ziehe diese per Maus in das andere Programm. Leider funktioniert dies in Lightroom nicht. Ich kann auch nur ein externes Programm einbinden. Bei mir ist dies Nikon Capture NX 2. Kann mir jemand sagen, wie ich in Lightroom die Bilder an andere programm per Mausziehen übergeben kann. Oder besteht die Möglichkeit weitere externe Programme einzubinden.
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Lothar Alb

I dont want to drag and drop dnd, but the orginal files. I do picture mangagement (keywords etc.) not editing in lightroom, so I just want to use the pictures I managed in my catalog to use in indesign quickly. If you drag and trop something from .AI into photoshop for example it does work.
Illustrator and PS are both programs where the image you see has a 1:1 correspondence with an image file.
Since Lightroom is just using the paths of pictures it should be able to place pictures from lightroom into inDesign directly. Same as Bridge does.
In Bridge (as with all conventional digital asset managers), each thumbnail shown, reliably "maps" to a given digital asset in 1:1 correpondence
In order to access the asset that is referenced by a LR image, you can select "show in Explorer/Finder".
A normal OS folder window opens with that source file already highlighted. Dragging and dropping this into another program or folder, will lead to whatever outcome you would normally expect. Of course, dragging it onto another folder will move it in a way that disrupts LR's referencing of that, within its Catalog. But drag-drop operations that COPY this file or generate new referencing or versions based on that, should be safe in LR terms.
A "picture" seen in Lightroom, is not the same thing as a file, it is a virtual entity.
Dragging that thumbnail from one place to another inside LR may have the effect of adding collection membership to that image, or causing it to be included in a list of images to be exported, or whatever, and may also affect the original file's location if dragged onto a different folder.
This thumbnail may, though, merely represent one processing variation (Virtual Copy) that is sharing the use of an underlying file on disk, with another thumbnail(s).
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Loading Freehand documents by drag and drop?

Not a very serious thing, but I can't load Freehand documents to Illustrator with drag and dropping to dock icon or double clicking.
I find this drags my workflow down a lot when I need to go thru the menus to open something. And I have a lot of old Freehand documents.
Is there maybe something wrong with my setup or is this normal?

What version of Illustrator are you using?
What versions of FH files are you opening?
What is your OS version?
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