From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
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Place an Illustrator file - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: InDesign
Place an Illustrator file
- [Instructor] Okay we're going to add an Illustrator file in this movie, let's go ahead and make sure first of all that our images layer here is active you can see it highlighted there like so. And then we're going to use the shortcut Command D or Control D to access the place command. Although if you need the file system, then file place from there. We have this file called carLogos it's an Illustrator file, we don't need any other options active and just hit Open. Now I want to place that on the first five columns at the top here, so these particular modules. So I'm going to go up to the left hand corner here and click and drag across like so to place that file. And this is a vector file Illustrator files usually are not always sometimes they contain images as well, but this one is 100% drawn vector, which means it can be scaled to any size. I'm just nudging this down a little bit with my arrow keys just a moment on my…
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Document setup2m 39s
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Create guides2m
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Master pages1m 54s
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Layers2m 12s
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Typography6m 21s
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Place images3m 41s
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Moving assets between layers1m 18s
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Place an Illustrator file1m 41s
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Add a character style3m 40s
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Reposition an image3m 2s
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Formatting text4m 19s
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Threading text1m 21s
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Columns and span3m 42s
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Challenge: Center heading1m 52s
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Solution: Center heading1m 11s
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Add inset spacing2m 42s
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Grid drawing and gaps3m 7s
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Challenge: Grid drawing53s
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Challenge: Thread text1m 44s
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Importing data3m 55s
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Styling a table3m 55s
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Object layer options5m 16s
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Gradient feather4m 2s
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