Placing file from Creative cloud

[Shild]

Can I place a file that I have saved in Cloud documents into Indesign?
What is the benefits in saving in Cloud documents actually?

[Laubender]

Hi Shild,

what kind of file? What kind of cloud?

What's your version of InDesign and operating system?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[Shild]

Hei 🙂

I use mac OS Catalina and Adobe indesign 2020.

I want to place an illustratorfile from adobe cloud documents.

[Laubender]

Hi Shild,

can you exactly tell what you did? Screenshots would help…

Did you save an artwork from Adobe Illustrator as asset to CC Libraries perhaps?

If so, this artwork should be available in CC Libraries with InDesign. And therefore also placeable.

Perhaps as SVG graphic…

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

[cwarch]

I have the same problem.  I create a photoshop graphic on my ipad and want to get it to layout page in InDesign.  This does not seem to work.  No option in "place" to make that happen.  Yes we have access to assets, but not the actual graphics.  So I need to download the file to a disk.  Seems like a flaw in the Document Cloud ecosystem.  The think is, Artwork is NOT available in CC Libraries, just patterns, colors etc.  

[Steve Werner]

InDesign cannot place Illustrator Cloud documents or Photoshop Cloud documents directly. That is not the purpose of those formats. It is to be able to efficiently move files between desktop and mobile devices, as well as to track versions. Those formats are not supported for importing or placing by other applications, including InDesign,

You must do a Save As and save as a document which resides on your desktop computer, on a server, then File > Place into InDesign. Alternately, you can add the files as a graphic asset to a Creative Cloud library. You can then drag the asset into InDesign.

[Dave_Breck]

Then it would behoove the marketing genius that created this popup extolling the endless virtues of saving to the Creative Cloud to perhaps suggest this. It's simply unhelpful and unheard of that nobody would work on a photoshop file and not place it into INDD long before having access to it across devices. This service is incomplete. 

[Steve Werner]

Marketing geniuses seldom understand subtleties of the way software (especially software which networks between multiple applications and application systems) works. So don't trust what they say. Investigate the tech documents which explain the way things really work, or, better yet, ask questions of a forum like this where people really use the stuff!

[NickedyName]

If "Cloud" documents behave differently than what's on my local machine - you have failed. I feel like I've been an Adobe beta tester for the last 15 years. 

[rob day]

Hi @NickedyName , InDesign can only place files that are saved on the local network—even CC Libraries assets have a local copy that syncs to user ▸ ⁨Library⁩ ▸ ⁨Application Support⁩ ▸ ⁨Adobe⁩ ▸ ⁨Creative Cloud Libraries⁩, which is what you are actually placing. If you want placed files to be both local and on the cloud, try the CreativeCloud Files folder for sync’ing:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/do-indesign-links-work-with-adobe-cloud-multiple...

[Conrad_C]

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@Shild wrote:

What is the benefits in saving in Cloud documents actually?

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For now, the benefit of Cloud Documents is exchanging whole documents in a network-efficient way between Mac/Windows and mobile versions of the same app (Illustrator, Photoshop, XD…). Also, Adobe gives Cloud Documents abilities it doesn’t provide to conventional local documents, such as version history and Invite to Edit collaboration.

I say “for now” because it might change in the future. InDesign was updated to place from Creative Cloud Libraries, but that has not (yet) happened for Cloud Documents. Hopefully placing Cloud Documents wll come in the future, but we don’t know when. For now we have to do the workaround of saving a copy of a Cloud Document to local storage and placing that in InDesign.

(Edit, December 2024: At some point after I originally wrote this reply, InDesign added the ability to place a Photoshop Cloud Document. But other Cloud Documents such as Illustrator are still not supported.)

[billj41422684]

Ah, ok. I just wasted several hours setting up a few client flyer folders to work as cloud versions. I've already had to seperate my design elements into libraries and files and save them in different places, and now I find I can't link in Illustrator elements using the cloud versions. I'm just going to go back to the local method and sync my files to OneDrive.

I am really disappointed in having to spend so much time just organising files rather than doing my jobs.

Anyway all the best to everybody.

[Andy5FB0]

I don't know if it helps, but seconding this frustration.

It totally subverts expectations that cloud storage wouldn't be compatible with the same provider's native applications. Version control and multi-device accessibility are core use cases, and I'm equally surprised and disappointed that Adobe doesn't support those.