Help! I think it can't be done, but -- from .ai to .indd with text? 2

[decisionman]

Help! I think it can't be done, but -- from .ai to .indd with editable text? I don't think it can, but if anyone knows of a plugin or anything, please let me know. This has probably been posted a million times... Anywho, yeah, just the rulers and guides and grids don't match up, trying to bring a 43 page document into indesign that was created with seperate illustrator files... damn.

Anyway, thanks!

 

[jmgalvin]

As far as I know, AI files are treated as graphics with uneditable text. If the AI docs have lot of text, you can try to export as .txt. and then place that in ID.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[jimoblak]

With Illustrator and InDesign open at the same time (and with the clipboard preferences set properly, you can copy and paste from Illustrator to InDesign.

You could always keep editing in Illustrator and then compile the EPS files in a single PDF file if you have Acrobat Pro. Then you can use the multi-page PDF import script for InDesign to load the PDF across several pages at once.

 

[decisionman]

^^ - thanks and...
^ - thanks!

^ - yeah, you can cut and paste with the right settings, but you can't keep text editable. Oh well, I spent all day doing it and it's done. I created an InDesign version with each page linked to an .ai file and told them they could right-click and edit original, but for some reason it had to be ID. C'est la vie.

First time using these forums. You guys are great! Thx.

 

[apepp]

...i've encountered artworkers using illustrator before for multiple page documents, 128 pages was my task, this was back in the illustrator 8 days...

...from a final output point of view, this way of creating such a large document was lunacy and it costed the designers more in the long run, colours not matching throughout the documents, keylines not lining up across spreads, the list went on...

...such extra work is unneccesary if you have a page layout application to hand, master page setups and so forth...

...another classic is artworked files set up as printers spreads and imposed to only have to be taken apart again, at extra cost too...

andrew