Can't crop placed Illustrator artwork

Question

Auto-fit is *NOT checked. When I use the selection tool (black arrow) on placed illustrator artwork and drag the frame handle it now resizes (squashes it) rather than crops. I would never want to resize a placed object that way, ever. I am not holding down any keys, but even if I do it causes resizing and not cropping. It is maddening as there is no longer any way to crop Illustrator art that I have copied and pasted into Indesign (version 18, 19, or 20). How do I get the ability to crop artwork back? Auto-Fit is *NOT checked and I have reset the preferences for Indesign. Still not working.

leo.r · Accepted Answer

check Clipboard Handling preferences in both Illustrator and InDesign

philipj25268431 · Answer

Cropping does seem to work when I *place the entire Illustrator file into Indesign. However, most of my .ai files contain multiple assets and I would like the ability to *paste individual selections from Illustrator to Indesign. When I do that, there are now two new unwanted changes: I can't crop, and the direct selection tool (white arrow) selects individual paths in my Illustrator artwork. I have no interest in editing Illustrator files in Indesign, that's what I use Illustrator for. I'd like to get it back to the way it was: pasting Illustrator artwork without it being editable so I can crop it in Indesign.

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