Somtimes I prefer to paste an Illustrator drawing into InDesign rather than place it, and occasionally when I do so, the pasted path includes the anchors and can be modified using the direct selection tool in InDesign. Mostly this does not occur, and it behaves like a normal placed file aside from having a link- it is embedded. Question: I like it when I can access the anchors and make changes directly in InDesign- how can I do this reliably? And why does it seem to happen randomly?
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Illustrator drawings pasted into InDesign
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Do the graphics without an anchor have raster (jpg or tif, etc) garphics as part of the file, or are they strictly vector (created in Illy)?
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Have you used the Warp or Liquify tools, or any of the other tools like that? It may have to do with the complexity of the paths, ID having only basic vector editing capabilities.
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Are you by chance pasting inline, in a text block? If you do that, you lose the ability to manipulate the graphic, whereas if it is pasted directly to your page, then you can edit, and CTRL + shift + G to ungroup and edit elements of the graphic.
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