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059 Copying paths between Illustrator and InDesign

059 Copying paths between Illustrator and InDesign - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

059 Copying paths between Illustrator and InDesign

InDesign has awesome tools for creating frames and paths and stuff. But when it comes to drawing amazing vector shapes it pales in comparison to its older sister Adobe Illustrator. But the good news is that you can move vector shapes back and forth between these two programs, using each for what it's best at. For example I have this big orange rectangle here. It's kind of a plain rectangle, nothing exciting about it, I'd like to spice it up a little bit. So I'm going to take that into Illustrator and give it an effect. To do that, I simply select it, copy it to the clipboard with Command+C or Ctrl+C on Windows, switch to Illustrator and Paste. Now it looks pretty much the same as it did in InDesign and that's good, but what I'm really getting here is more than I bargained for. I can see that by going to the View menu and choosing Outline. See how there is an extra line around the path? That's a clipping mask and that's a clue that something has come along for the ride. It sometimes…

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