Importing Illustrator files in InDesign

I have an issue that is more of an annoyance than a major problem. I put togethers ads in Illustrator and then place them in my InDesign template. Instead of a 4.75" x 5.375" ad placing in a 4.75" x 5.375" space, I get the ad plus the blue frame edge surrounding the ad. The problem is when I want to precisely place the ad using InDesign. If I want the border of the ad to be placed right at 0 and 0, I can't do that because InDesign instead places the frame edge at 0 and 9 and the border of the ad might be .1" or .2" inside the frame edge. I can hide the frame edge, but that does not solve the problem. Is there any way to make the frame edge exactly the same as my ad borders? I have made sure there are no stray points in the Illustrator files prior to placing them in InDesign.

Thanks. I'm not sure how well you can see this, but there is a blue frame box around the ad at the left side of the page that is larger than the ad itself. This causes a problem when I try to precisely place an ad using InDesign. For example, it I want the ad at the upper left of the page, I type 0 and 0 for X and Y. The frame box will be at 0 and 0, but the ad border itself is not. If I use "Fit Frame to Content," that doesn't seem to fix things. Apparently, the Illustrator file is showing content outside of the ad border but I don't see any and cleanup founds no stray points. I could copy and paste the ads into InDesign to solve the frame problem. However, I update many of the ads month to month and want to have links so the ads update automatically in InDesign.

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For many months I have been importing Word files into InDesign CS3 (Mac OSX 10.4.11) with no trouble, but I started having a problem yesterday.
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Hi there,
How do you import Illustrator file as a background image in
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You would have to save the image as a JPG or GIF image and
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> How do you import Illustrator file as a background image
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File > Place.
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I have included a screenshot of what happens when i click and drag the illusrator file.
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InDesign creates a raster thumbnail called a proxy to display images placed in InDesign.
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Ok, this is going to sound strange, but here's what happened:
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The long version:
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Dunno why. Which versions of ID/AI? Not that it should matter, I get the same results with CS6 and CC2014.
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Hi All,
I'm quite new to InDesign and I just want to query the below...
I've imported an illustrator file, which I have several instances of on the document, and have applied a colour swatch. InDesign is displaying the colour so that it fills the entire bounding box of each instance.
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