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Using libraries to copy text between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

Using libraries to copy text between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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Using libraries to copy text between InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

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- Welcome to Type Tips, I'm Nigel French. This week, I tip about copying texts from InDesign to Illustrator and to Photoshop. Something that's not as easy as you might hope. So here I have some text in InDesign. If I copy this and then switch to Illustrator and paste it, we get this message, and we see that the line breaks are completely messed up. The whole thing basically explodes. So how do we get the text from InDesign into Illustrator without that happening? The answer is we make it into a library item. So I am going to find my libraries panel down there inexplicably, well, there is a reason, but it's a bit esoteric, called CC libraries here in InDesign, but libraries in Illustrator and Photoshop. So with this selected, I'll just come and click on the plus, and I'm concerned with adding the text object. So there it is, text number five. Let me now switch over to Illustrator, and in Illustrator, let me get my…

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