Indesign to Illustrator Problems

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December 31, 2019
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Hello Everybody,

I'm working with a manufacturer that uses a printer in Korea. This printer does not use Indesign software and is asking for each page to be a separate AI file. Unfortunately, I've already created the 40-something page doc in Indesign. Any way to export for Illustrator? I've tried exporting to EPS and opening in Illustrator but the artboard sizes open to the default Illustrator size.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

RT

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Colin Flashman

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The printer should still be able to handle PDF files created for print - PDF is a ubiquitous format for print and it would be highly unusual for a printer to not handle PDF files. I concur with Luke Jennings advice - get information from the printer about what PDF export settings are required.

By trying to prepare export the InDesign files to eps for another party to open with Illustrator can present many dangers.

If the answer wasn't in my post, perhaps it might be on my blog at colecandoo!

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Please tell us what operating system (exactly) you're running. Please tell us (exactly) what InDesign (and Illustrator) versions you're using.

Have you tried exporting PDF (File > Export > Adobe PDF)? Choose PDF/X-4 as the PDF export preset. Create an Illustrator file with as many artboards as InDesign pages. Set the artboard sise to page size. Choose File > Place. Check Show Import Options so you can select PDF pages.

One-by-one (unless someone has a script) place each PDF page on an Illustrator artboard. Good luck!

aretuffohnoAuthor

Participant

Thank you! I'll give your suggestion a try. I was trying to avoid having to place each page one-by-one, but all the search results I'm finding seem to suggest it's the only way.

For reference, I'm working with the following:

Windows 10 Home v1809, 64-bit
Illustrator CC v24.0.1
Indesign CC v15.0.1

Thanks again!

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Give it a try. I tried a few pages on a document I was working on in InDesign, and it seemed to work for me.

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