Illustrator to Indesign - copy/paste

I created a design in Adobe Illustrator and then select that design, copy and paste in Indesign.
Everything comes fine and looking fine in Indesign but when i export that as a PDF then one thin line is shown on page because when i paste a design then Indesign splits that design in parts.
There is any way of solving this problem.

> File > Place can be used if i save the file in illustrator in a format which understands by indesign otherwise have to do copy/paste...
Uh, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Don't Copy and paste to get Illustrator art into Indesign. save the file as AI, then use File > Place. The only reason to copy/paste is if you want the be able to edit the artwork within Indesign. This might apply to paths that are easier to create or edit in Illustrator that you want to use as frames in InDesign. Some people like to do this with logos so that the colour is easy to change within Indesign (I'm not one of those people).
But for the vast majority of cross-application uses, Placing a file is the smarter move.

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Ich habe da mal so eine Frage bezüglich des Einbettens von Bildern in Indesign...Ich kann es gerade selber nicht überprüfen, da ich nur Indesign über die Schule benutze. Die Information ist wichtig für meine Prüfung denn es gibt einen theoretischen Teil in dem solche Fragen gestellt werden.
Wo liegt der Unterschied zwischen "Copy and Paste" (Kopieren & Einfügen) um ein Bild einzufügen und dem gewohnten "Place" (Platzieren) über Indesign? (eine der beliebtesten Fragen der vergangenen Jahre an unserer Schule)
Ist es richtig, dass wenn ich über "Platzieren" mein Bild einfüge, das Bild auf meiner Festplatte vorhanden sein muss (was bei "copy&paste" halt nicht umbedingt)
UND dieses sich meinem Rahmen, in Größe (nicht Dateingröße) anpasst?
(warum es sinnvoll ist das Bild auf der Festplatte zu haben ist mir bewusst )
Freue mich über rasche Antworten
Ganz lieben Gruß die Fortuna

Would you please advise if the image quality is the same when copied/pasted, rather than "placed" into my inDesign document.....
While copy/paste of images is dangerous poison in general
If you set your Clipboard Handling preference to Prefer PDF When Pasting it's hard to find any evidence of a quality difference between pasting and linking, at least on OSX. A pasted image is embedded so there might be a problem with file size if you pasted multiple large pixel dimension images and it would be harder to edit the image once it is pasted, but Acrobat tells me the same image linked and pasted have the same resolution and color properties.
This PDF/X-4 has the same CMYK image pasted from Photoshop and then linked. Both have Coated FOGRA27 assigned. Acrobat's Object Inspector shows no difference in resolution, bit depth, or color space:
http://www.zenodesign.com/forum/PasteVsLinked.zip

Image editing in InDesign (copy and paste from Illustrator)

Hi
I have a scenario and I hope someone can clarify:
I work on a Mac using Adobe Illustrator & Indesign CS4. Whenever I copy and paste/drag an image from illustrator to Indesign, that particular graphic is uneditable in InDesign, and that is ok. I want it like that for the clerk/typists to use in their InDesign files.
However, on a PC with Vista, when the graphic is copied and pasted/dragged from illustrator to indesign, that graphic becomes editable using the direct selection tool in InDesign. What I want to know is if there is way to turn this off on the PC version like on a mac?
thank you in advance
Dee

Hi,
maybe the difference lies with the way Illustrator pastes the images.
Here with my trusty CS3 in the "File and clipboard preferences" (translated from the french) I have a choice of exporting the clipboard in PDF or AICB.
If I understand your message I would guess that the Mac exports as PDF and Vista exports as AICB.
A check of the preferences could help with that,
good luck.

Copy & Paste from Illustrator to InDesign CS4

Hi,
I am aware that there are issues when copying/pasting from Illustrator to InDesign, in particular:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6bdda.html
I have the following problems:
1- I copy and paste text from Illustrator to InDesign on the same platform and some (not all) of the text is converted to outline in InDesign. The same font is available to both applications. Why this behaviour?
2- I copy and paste objects containing text from Illustrator to InDesign and some of the objects appear to have moved respective positions when pasted into InDesign. Is this to be expected?
Are there solutions to these problems? Note that if I expand everything in Illustrator prior to copying and pasting into InDesign, none of these issues occur, but everything is obviously in outline form, with the limitations it entails.
My clipboard settings are as indicated in the link above, but I have tried other settings with no more luck.
(Important: Before pasting a graphic, make sure that Illustrator is configured to copy as AICB (see Illustrator Help). In InDesign, make sure that Prefer PDF When Pasting isn’t selected in the Clipboard Handling preferences. If these options aren’t set properly, the Illustrator graphic cannot be edited in InDesign.)
It is not practical for me to create an Illustrator file for each of the Illustrator graphics and import those files via Place into InDesign. I must use Copy/Paste.
I use CS4.
Thanks.

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.
If you need to get anything other than very simple objects from Illy to ID then you should save as AI and use the file > place command to place those objects as linked graphics into ID.
Your closing statement is irrelevant. Whether you like it or not, this is the way it is.
Bob

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Is there options to get the image copy & paste into the Indesign, if i done manually the frames and lines stroke, colors, are coming fine, but the text object only converted the image. i want to edit text in indesign.
this is possible for scripting or manual?
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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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Your closing statement is irrelevant. Whether you like it or not, this is the way it is.
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See above image.. I made a vector version of our company logo in illustrator (all programs referenced are cs5 btw) and it looks great, but when I copy and paste from Illustrator to InDesign, it loses the transparency around the logo. If I place the logo instead, it works fine. The trouble is there are about 16 variations of the logo, and its MUCH easier to copy/paste from one aggregate file instead of having many different logo files to place.
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I agree with Bob's suggestion to use separate "layer groups" in your logo file for different styles. I also use separate layers inside InDesign to "multi-purpose" company documents with different backgrounds, graphics, and content. But that's the only way I use layers inside InDesign – Not for general placement of image files! I also disagree with ability to copy and paste graphics from Illustrator with drop shadow. Here's an .ai logo which I quickly added Drop Shadow to in Illustrator CS4, and then a Copy and Paste into InDesign CS4 document. Best workflow practice is to 'Place' image files as Bob suggests, linking them from a separate file folder.
For something "quick and dirty" I see no problem with Copy and Paste, but your success may vary based on OS, and CS versions you are using! Sometimes it is wiser to take a few shortcuts to hit rather than miss that deadline!

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T

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My flow is as follows:
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Hi,
My flow is as follows:
- Open document in IndesignServer
- (XML)Tag every pageitem with our custom IndesignServer plugin (c++ SDK)
- If pageItem is a group, tag every member separately
- save/close the document
My problem is:
- If pageitem was copy/pasted from Illustrator and pageitem has a gradient fill => IndesignServer crashes while tagging.
- Copy/pasted illustrator items with plain colorfills work fine.
Note that:
- Copy pasted pageitems from illustrator with a gradient fill are considerated as group in Indesign.
- The gradient fill of Illustrator is not recognized as such in Indesign ( I could only test with Illustrator CS4).
- The lack of color information in that situation is not enough to consider the object as "from Illustrator".
My question:
- How can i determine if the origin of the pageitem is Illustrator? (I have no control on the creation of the document).
I know this is a hard one...
Thanks in advance for any usefull input!
Bart Devos.

Desperate for help! indd crashing when copying/pasting from illustrator

i have cs2; updated programs for indesign and illustrator; on my new imac
i have a bunch of small graphics -- logos, and line drawings -- that i need to place into indd.
they have been scanned and traced in illustrator.
i have copied and then pasted them into indd. HOWEVER INDD crashes immediately over and over. i've tried copying and pasting them from ai into indd into blank documents -- once again crash.
I NEED TO GET THIS PROJECT DONE! yikes.
what can i do to prevent crashes???
AND -- big question -- if i save them in ai. and place them into indd -- i have white boxes around each graphic which I DO NOT WANT. that's why i was copying and pasting to begin with. Are there ways to save graphics and place them into indd without these white boxes around them. I'm open to other formats -- and not embedding -- but need to get rid of the box.
at one point i got a message saying memory was full. now it all just crashes.
please help anyone and everyone. i'll be indebted to you!

ok; i am able to get the objects to show up without the white box when doing this!!!!!
THANK you for that suggestion!!!!!!
but what about copying and pasting?? isn't that supposed to work between indesign/illustrator????

Can't copy from illustrator to indesign?

Alright, first the essentials: I'm using CC for all my software and I'm on OSX (10.7.5).
I am doing some vector outlines of photos that already exist. Many of these photos have clipping paths on them which, when I open them in illustrator, seem to show up as paths. Awesome! I can just drop a stroke on there and save myself a bunch of time.
That works fine in illustrator, but if I then if I try to copy/paste the outlines into InDesign, I get an error that says "Illustrator import failed. Scrap contains no visible objects."
Creating the outlines brand new with the pen tool works fine and copies over as usual, but if I can save myself a few hours and use the existing paths, that would sure be helpful. Hopefully this is just a setting somewhere or something that I'm missing. Any ideas?

You would probably do better to link your Illustrator files into InDesign. It takes a bit longer but on the whole it is a better workflow and if you need to make adjustments you just option double-click on the linked images in InDesign and they open in Illustrator.
Copy-Paste can work sometimes but, as you have discovered, not always.
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You can only find and replace soft return (they call them forced line breaks) using find and replace. Yet another item requested for many years that the Illustrator upgrade team ignores.
JET wrote a script that replaces hard returns with pipe characters (just change that to a space before applying the script).
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3440474#3440474
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This is a problem I've had since Flash 8: when doing a
copy/paste from Flash to Illustrator (on Windows), there's extreme
degradation of the artwork, sometimes to the extent that no actual
art is even copied. All the curves seem to be approximated with
straight line segments, but at some point it just seems to give up
even trying, leaving an unidentifiable blob for most of the object.
As I said, sometimes it doesn't even copy anything at all -- all
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2004. What could possibly have changed? I was sure with CS3 it
would be fixed, but it wasn't. I haven't tried Illustrator CS4 yet,
but copying from Flash CS4 to Illustrator CS3 produces the same
problem.
I've seen a few other reports of this problem in other
forums, but I've encountered it on every install of Flash and
Illustrator I've tried (admittedly, all Windows machines, but three
or four different ones, both XP or Vista). Can anyone here confirm
that this problem exists or doesn't exist on their computer? To
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If this problem is as widespread as my experience seems to
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the software? Is Adobe even aware of it? If not, how can I let them
know? I'm getting majorly sick of having to deal with it.
Illustrator used to be a much larger part of my animation process,
but now I can't use it how I really want to because of the bad copy
and paste functionality.
-David

Hi,
The integration between Flash CS3 and Illustrator means you
can copy objects from Illustrator to Flash and i think if you copy
from Flash to illustrator or Photoshop, you would not get a good
results.
You can solve your problem by exporting your Flash work as
.AI.
Your idea about the ability to copy from Flash to Illustrator
is a good idea although Illustrator can not read some of the Flash
imported information correctly. But it is still a good enahcement
idea. There is a link where you can add suggestions but I do not
remember it and I am replying using mobile, so my browsing
capabilities is limited.
I will try to post the link here when I got to my back normal
connection
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32 GB RAM
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i don't see how that could be the case because I originally installed the font, created and packaged the ad, and the font is available for typesetting in a new document while this problematic document is open without being connected to the server.
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