How importing text from Illustrator to InDesign ?

[Anabispo]

How importing text from Illustrator to InDesign, kepping it editable ?

[Markcq]

It's still a mission. Add it to a Library from Illustrator. Place it in InDesign from the Library. Delete the Library item, because it's not something you want to keep there. What a waste of time and energy.

• Cmd/Ctrl C
• Switch app
• Cmd/Ctrl V

What could be simpler?

[joseph24110538syrg]

Man, could not agree more, pretty pathetic that we cannot simply copy and paste the exact formatting and design from Ai to Id...just wrong...

[Test Screen Name]

Sounds right to me. They are different beasts. If you want every conceivable text effect from Illustrator in InDesign, then InDesign has to BE Illustrator, including every tool and trick. It's complicated enough already. It does a different job. Plus, how could Adobe sell both apps, if InDesign can do everything Illustrator can do...

 Sometimes people do ask for an integrated Adobe DTP app with all the features of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, but - while Adobe have shown a willingness to implement bad ideas - they haven't gone that way yet. Presumably loss of revenue is a factor.

[Laubender]

"What a waste of time and energy."

"pretty pathetic that we cannot simply copy and paste the exact formatting and design from Ai to Id"

I agree. It should work seamlessly. And that could be copy/paste.

What's missing: a common exchange format like the IDMS snippet format is for InDesign. Just something between InDesign, Illustrator and PhotoShop.

E.g.: Drag a text frame out from Illustrator to the desktop to do the exchange file, drag in or place the file to InDesign; the next best thing after copy/paste.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )