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FAQs

How do I import an AI File into InDesign? ›

In Adobe Illustrator, create a few shapes and save a file in the AI format by clicking File > Save. In InDesign, click File > Place. When the dialog box opens, select the Show Import Options checkbox and click Open. In the Place PDF dialog box, select the Show Preview checkboxes.

How to open an INDD file. You can only open and edit INDD files with Adobe InDesign and other compatible programs in the Creative Cloud suite.

Import InDesign (.

Add pages in your document to hold the pages you want to import. After you choose File > Place and select an INDD file, you can choose Show Import Options and then choose which pages to import, which layers to make visible, and how to crop the imported pages.

Go to File > Place. Check Show Import Options and select the layered Adobe file you want to import. Preview the page before you place it.

Any project that features text and imagery can benefit from both apps — Illustrator and InDesign are both part of Creative Cloud and are designed to work together. Illustrator is where you can create all of the visual assets for a book or other publication, and InDesign is where you lay out those graphics with text.

To open an AI file in Illustrator, choose File > Open and select the file from your computer. Ensure that your file has the . AI extension. You can also open PDF, EPS, and SVG files.

Choose Window > Utilities > Data Merge. Choose Select Data Source from the Data Merge panel menu. To change delimited text options, select Show Import Options. InDesign automatically detects the type of delimiter and encoding used in the data source file, so showing the import options usually isn't necessary.

How do you import objects into InDesign? ›

Go to File > Place. Ctrl + select (Windows) or Command + select (macOS) the images you want to add. You can select graphics, text files, InDesign files, and any supported file format. Check Show Import Options.

Import Adobe Photoshop (.

You can place graphics created in Adobe Photoshop directly into an InDesign layout.

If you have text in Illustrator you want in your InDesign file you can select the text using theta editing tool. That is, highlight the text, don't just select the text object. Copy, then paste into InDesign as text.

Use "File > Place" or drag and drop from Finder/Explorer. You can also copy and paste from Illustrator, but it may cause formatting or link issues. In InDesign, choose to link or embed the file. Linking references the original, updating it if changed in Illustrator.

Choose File > Import, and then browse to the Illustrator file and insert it into your document.

On the Main menu, click File, and then click Place Embedded to insert a smart object into a loaded PSD template, or click Open As Smart Object to load a smart object as a new PSD file. On the Layer menu, point to Smart Object, and then click Convert to Smart Object in order to convert a layer to a smart object.