illy to indesign Q
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- JamesBoynton
I'm still fairly new to the suite, im using cs2.
I have done a 2 colour logo in Illustrator, whats the best way to get it in indesign and have it remain vector? when i placed the ai in indesign it came through bitmapped so i tried copying the logo in illy and pasting it into indesign, it worked fine and remained vector. I could change the logo of the logo no problem but it wouldnt let me make one of the colours a tint, well it lets me and says it has but the actual colour in the logo stays the same.... any ideas?
how do you guys do something like this?
Thanks in advance for any help you can give me
james
- designerror0
copy/paste?
- JamesBoynton0
yeah designerror, it worked fine but wouldnt allow me to add a tint to it, i could change a colour but not set a tint.
cheers
- Raniator0
copy/paste is bad.
save the logo as an eps.
in indesign go to file > place.
find it, import it.
done.
- designerror0
use transparency instead of tint
- Raniator0
dunno about changing tints and shit though?
you'd do that in illustrator first wouldn't you?
- designerror0
copy/paste works fine,
eps is the old quark way of doing things, no need for that anymore
- doesnotexist0
I copy/paste, makes for smaller files and doesn't take a day and half to export to PDF.
If it's too big it will embed itself as an EPS anyways.
If you're getting pixelated things you probably need to turn on your display performance to high.
- lele0
No reason to import an .eps, import the .ai file, it works great.
Anyway, to change tint just open the samples panel and set the % in the edit box top-left. Any color you create in illy library will be imported in InD library...
- JamesBoynton0
hey lele cheers, when i imported the ai it came it bitmapped looking, maybe theres a setting i need to change?
- Rand0
this is going to sound fucked up, but I export illustrator to fh and then cut and paste it into the InD doc as native Ind shapes
- lele0
ALT + APPLE + Z
Or in view menu set the visualization preferences to "typical"... not sure about the real name, I'm using InD in italian...
- lele0
ALT + APPLE + H
for hi res visualization...
- JamesBoynton0
cool, cheers guys
did a few tests, when i import as an eps or ai file then its a link and doesnt seem to be editable. So i will prob just stick with copying and pasting and being able to edit it... i will try the FH thing as well... doesnt copying direct from illy to ID make it a native shape?
- Rand0
probably
- horton0
as others already said, copy and paste from AI is OK with basic vectors, but really is better practice to place the .ai file.
copy and pasting multiple vector logos will increase your ID file size quickly. and embedding complicated drawings will drag your page preview down to a crawl.
also when you start building complicated layouts its really nice to be able to link back to an placed graphic file and make changes that update and apply to all instances.