Taking Icons from Illustrator to Indesign

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March 16, 2023
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Hi!

I created an icon set with an editable stroke in Illustrator. Now I need to take the icons across to Indesign while keeping the stroke editable. Every way that I have tried to take them across has flattened the artwork. Can anyone help??

Thank you! 🙂

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Kurt Gold

Community Expert

In Illustrator, are your strokes perhaps aligned to inside or outside?

Or some transparency settings other than "normal"?

Hello it's HayleyAuthor

Participant

Hi Kurt!

It is set to align to centre and it doesn't seem like I can change it to
left or right align. Is that normal?

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Hard to tell without taking a look at the actual file.

Can you perhaps share this Illustrator file for inspection?

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Copy in Illustrator and Paste in Indesign?

Hello it's HayleyAuthor

Participant

Thanks, Ton. This was the first thing I tried but it is pasting as a
flattened vector and the stroke is no longer editable when I copy and paste
into Indesign.

I'm not sure if it is something in my preferences / settings that is
causing this.

Hello it's HayleyAuthor

Participant

I could have guessed you tried that. My Clipboard Handling settings have both SVG and PDF checked.

Both InDesign and Illustrator documents had the same color mode.

In Indesign I have Prefer PDF When Pasting unchecked forClipboard Handling.

Thank so much for sharing your settings. I double checked mine and it still
doesn't seem to be working. I'm super confused.

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