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Placing file from Creative cloud

Community Beginner ,
Jun 23, 2020 Jun 23, 2020

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

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Community Expert ,
Jun 23, 2020 Jun 23, 2020

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Hi Shild,

what kind of file? What kind of cloud?

What's your version of InDesign and operating system?

 

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Uwe Laubender

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 29, 2020 Jun 29, 2020

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Hei 🙂

I use mac OS Catalina and Adobe indesign 2020.

I want to place an illustratorfile from adobe cloud documents.

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Community Expert ,
Jun 29, 2020 Jun 29, 2020

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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…

 

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Uwe Laubender

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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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.  

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Community Expert ,
Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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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.

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Participant ,
Jun 09, 2022 Jun 09, 2022

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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. 

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Community Expert ,
Jun 10, 2022 Jun 10, 2022

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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!

 

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New Here ,
Nov 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022

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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. 

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Nov 15, 2022 Nov 15, 2022

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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...

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Community Expert ,
Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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@Shild wrote:

What is the benefits in saving in Cloud documents actually?


 

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.

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