Keep ILL from Centering When Opening 2

[duffs]

Hi,

I'm sure this is a very basic question, but I'm not that experienced in Illustrator.

I have a file in Indesign that is letterhead. It has a logo and text at the top of an 8.5" x 11" document.

I saved it as an EPS and opened it in Illustrator. Instead of showing me my logo/text at the top of the document, it centers it on the 8.5 x 11 page.

How do I keep Illustrator from doing this? My coworker has a workaround (putting an 8.5" x 11" dummy box in Indesign so that Illustrator will keep the page dimensions, and then deleting the box in Illustrator) but there's got to be a better way, me thinks.

TIA

 

[itchybug]

duffs:

I can't think of one, mainly because I don't know too much about Indesign.

Let me ask you this:

1. Can you save specific "views" in Indesign like you can in Illustrator?

2. Can you set crop marks around your logo?

3. Can you assign notes to objects in Indesign?

If you can answer any or all of those questions, we can work from there...

HTH

Bert

Bert Philippus -

http://www.itchybug.com

 

[duffs]

Hi,

The answer to crop marks is no. You can specify crop marks on the print window, but there isn't that choice when exporting an eps.

The answers to the other questions are, I'm not sure. It has something called Tags but I think that's tagging the document for xml.

I don't know of a way to save a view.

I'll add more info: I think it's an issue with the way Illustrator opens a file, not with the way Indesign saves it. The reason I think this is because when I open the EPS with Photoshop, it looks fine; the logo is at the top where it should be.

I think Illustrator automatically centers your artwork when you open a file. The hack of putting a box around the whole thing in Indesign makes Illustrator think the box is part of your artwork,, therefore it doesn't center the logo by itself.

 

[carlow]

Hi duffs,

Maybe a good workaround could be to export the InDesign file as an pdf.
Take a high resolution pdf setting like 'Press', 'PDF/X1-a' or something similar.

Then go to Illustrator and open the pdf file. The pdf should keep the page dimensions of your InDesign document and pdf and illustrator are like brother and sister.

good luck
carlow

 

[itchybug]

That sounds like it might work. Star for you.

Bert Philippus -

http://www.itchybug.com

 

[duffs]

That works great!

Thanks!