InDesign reading my text as a shape

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December 16, 2021
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Hello everyone!

As a part of my workflow, I create my files in Illustrator and then I use InDesign to export a PDF file. But now I'm having a problem with my text, as you can see in the first picture, thats how my file is supposed to look and the second picture is how it become when I open my file on InDesign and also on the PDF file. What can I do to solve that?
Important: I can't expand the the text

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Barb Binder

Community Expert

Any reason not to place the native .ai file?

Illustrator 2022

File > Save as (defaults)

Native .ai file placed into InDesign 2022

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

John Mensinger

Community Expert

when I open my file on InDesign

Please provide more detail as to the exact steps you're taking. You can't "open" an Illustrator file in InDesign. Also, your description suggests a problem with the text, but unless I'm missing something, the text itself doesn't look any different in the two views you offered. It's also not clear why InDesign is involved at all as a PDF export method when you could just Save As PDF in Illustrator.

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AnaC MartinsAuthor

Participating Frequently

I use the place command to import the Illustrator file in InDesign. Im sorry, I said the text but I was trying to talk about that grey shape that shows in the second image.