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#Adobe illustrator 8 save compatible file pdf#
InDesign is reading the PDF part, not the AI part! If you turn off that checkbox, the resulting file is much smaller, and while you can technically import it into InDesign, you won’t get a preview or be able to print or export it properly.
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AI files all the time! Yes, but InDesign isn’t reading the AI part… The only reason InDesign can import that file properly is that you have saved it with the Create PDF Compatible File checkbox turned on. I can’t believe I fell for it, and I’m not sure if I’m more angry at Adobe for not allowing me to import AI files or at myself for having drunk the KoolAid and believed them without digging deeper.īut David, I hear you shouting, I import. In fact, Adobe has spent countless marketing dollars telling the world that InDesign can open native Illustrator files. Of course, InDesign can import Illustrator files. But Illustrator… Illustrator is the grandpappy of Adobe’s happy family. I can certainly understand why Adobe InDesign hasn’t historically opened Freehand files. But like many of us, I switched to Illustrator somewhere in the mid-90s. I even wrote a plug-in for Freehand 3.0 which (much) later evolved into an InDesign plug-in. I loved Freehand dearly in the early ’90s. The issue, you see, is the Adobe Illustrator format.
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So forgive me a short IDSGOM, which may be educational to some readers. As you all know, I love InDesign, but love is like a magnet: It can repulse as quickly as it attracts. No, once again my frustration turns to InDesign. After all, it’s a typical beautiful day here on the outskirts of Seattle - oppressive near-rain gray, just the way I like it.