Importing text from Illustrator

[kphotopage]

I created some live type in Illustrator. When Placing or copy and paste that text into InDesign, my text has a dotted bounding box and my characters all have separate bounding boxes. Also the type appears to be jaggie.

Question. Am I doing something wrong? My Illustrator text paths are no longer type paths when I place them into InDesign. What's going on???

Thank you.

Kathryn
Mac 10.3.9
CS2

 

[jmgalvin]

Something's wierd if you did not create outlines of the text in AI.

If you didn't outline the text and it's coming into INDD as paths, try copying the text from AI, not the text frame, and paste that into INDD. Another thing to try is to draw a text box in INDD, with the cursor blinking, and paste into that.

When you Place an AI file into ID, you're placing a graphic, not text and you would edit the same as any ither graphic - by selecting Edit Original from the Links window.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[kphotopage]

jmgalvin

Thank you for your reply. I did not create outlines. This was a test to see if I could keep type live when placing into InDesign. I am basically a new user with InDesign.

As you stated, when I placed or pasted it was a graphic and not text. I will edit the original from the links palette as you suggested.

You were a big help. Thank you. Kathryn

 

[jmgalvin]

If you copied the text itself, not the text frame, and pasted it into an ID text box it will stay as text.

Just did that about 1/2 hr ago on a doc - transferring an updated ad from Ai to INDD.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[kphotopage]

OK, I tried again.

When copying and pasting text from Illustrator into InDesign, I was able to keep text live but there wasn’t any formatting.

Your suggestion earlier was good. I will Place my Illustrator type into InDesign. It will be a graphic and not live text. To Edit, I will use Link palette to edit original.

For Photoshop, I will Place also. It becomes a Smart Object. I can edit using Vector Smart Object which is an Illustrator file.

Thank you for your help. Kathryn