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October 18, 2017
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Objects imported to InDesign CC (13.0) from Illustrator are being sliced—why!?!

  • October 18, 2017
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Now, for some godforsaken reason, any objects that are ported over to InDesign from Illustrator are being sliced—any thoughts on why this wonderful (*sarcasm*) feature was included or to turn it off???

I should have known better than to update my CC apps on the day of release.

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Correct answer RaviKiran

rob day​ nope, not whats going on. This is a live AI file, built from scratch, not a PDF that has been opened.

BobLevine​​ I am attempting to copy and paste the working elements from the AI file into INDD to resize a series of ads. I've never experienced any issues with doing so until this update rolled out and I regularly perform such function without any of these errors—this has been noted by my coworkers as well. SOMETHING has changed with the software.


There has been no change in behavior between InDesign versions (CS6 vs. CC2017 vs. CC2018) when copying and pasting text from Illustrator - it no longer remains as text when pasted into InDesign.

As mentioned above, copy-pasting is not the recommended method to bring in elements from AI into ID - it is best to save as AI file and place in ID.

You could also use CC Libraries to bring in text from Illustrator into InDesign - just drag the text element from the AI document into the CC Libraries panel and then  drag it out from the same panel into an ID document.

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amaarora
Inspiring
October 18, 2017

Hi,

Objects? you mean placing AI files in InDesign?

-Aman

Participant
October 18, 2017

No—simply selecting all Artboard elements and copying/pasting from AI to INDD.

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2017

How about you give us something to go on.

Screenshots and operating system would be a good start.

Participant
October 18, 2017

OS X 10.11.1

Screenshot from AI:

Colors are masked image (linked .tif)
Top text is live, bottom is outlined.

Screenshots from INDD:

First screenshot you can see that slices have been made and text is broken—all that has been done is copy and paste.

Second screenshot illustrates how the image has been sliced.

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 18, 2017

Looks like you pasted into InDesign.