marinarivon  wrote From the previous discussions I gather that the right way to go is to Paste the native ai file in the InDesign document. BUT, is there any way I can use the Effects panel from InDesign on these illustrator images? When you just copy and paste them you can lower the color % and add effects like multiply etc. With the ai file I cant seem to do it, What is the correct form to do this so that it will print properly. I need the effects in the final InDesign document and I don't know how to make it happen. You have gathered incorrectly. The correct way to import artwork is to place it. You can place artwork on the page, in which case a graphic frame will be created to hold the placed artwork; or you can place a graphic into an existing graphic frame. If you need to edit the artwork in InDesign, say to use a shape from an Illustrator file as a text or graphic frame in InDesign then you should paste it. But there are few other reasons to do this. You can change the opacity and blending mode of the placed artwork in the Effects panel. This will affect the entire graphic, since it is one object to InDesign. marinarivon  wrote By the way, I also noted that although I place the file as a native ai file the info says its a pdf? Is this right? Thank you for any advise, Marina BTW I'm using InDesign and Illustrator CC2017 Illustrator files are PDFs. Or rather, a native Illustrator file contains the artwork twice: once as native Illustrator data and once as a high-quality PDF. When you open an Illustrator file in Illustrator the Illustrator data is used. When you place the file in Indesign (or rasterize in Photoshop or view in a browser or the Finder) you are looking at the PDF data. You can save Illustrator files with PDF data omitted. This can make Illustrator files much smaller (since no high resolution raster artwork is embedded in the now missing PDF component). Such files can only be viewed and edited with Illustrator. ... View more

You have set a default character style. You did this by clicking on a character style while no text or text frame was selected. This set the default format for all new text frames in the document. Select no character style (click an empty area of the panel or select None from the Character Style pop-up menu in the Control panel) while no text frame is active. This will set a new default format for future text frames. ... View more

Keep the master page items on their own layer in the original file you are placing. When you import the file click on Show Import options (or hold Shift when you click Open) and hide the master items layer. ... View more

Set the Keep with next value to zero. You have the text defined so it must all fit into one column, assuming the Keep with Next 1 line and Keep all lines together options are consistent. ... View more

A more layout intensive method that requires no additional expense is to just rebuild the file in InDesign. Export a PDF then place that into a dedicated non-printing layer in your InDesign file. Keep the QuarkXPress file open to copy and paste text and inspect elements for position, scale, and text formatting. This will, of course, take much longer. But it will produce a cleaner file with much less cruft and excess styles and swatches. Future users of the file will write operas in your honour. ... View more

Unless you have the same leading, or multiples of the same leading value, for all the styles in your layout your baselines will not line up. InDesign is following your instructions, and you can tweak your leading and paragraph spacing precisely. To that add that the baseline for the first line of text can be fixed, based on the leading of the paragraph, based on the glyph height or the cap height (which is based on the point size and the font). Keeping the baseline for multiple columns of text lined up can be difficult. This is InDesign’s strength, but it also means you need to plan things out. Say your heading is exactly twice as high as your body copy and the leading for the heading is exactly twice the leading for body copy. It should be easy to keep the baselines aligned. But in the example you have two other paragraphs with what appears to be two different leading values. These do not appear to be multiples of the leading of your body copy. It is impossible to have one consistent style that will result in your body copy aligning across multiple columns when these paragraphs have different line counts. You can compensate for this in several ways. You can adjust the leading for these paragraphs on a story-by-story basis so that the baselines align. This means the introduction paragraphs will have different leading in different stories. You can adjust he space between these paragraphs of between these paragraphs and the body copy that follows. This will, again, be done on a story-by-story basis. You will get inconsistent space where the horizontal rule is shown, but your baselines will align. Or you can turn on align to grid for your body copy. This will give you the same result as the second option above, but it will happen automatically. ... View more