Illustrator to InDesign

Illustrator to InDesign: Learn how to convert Adobe Illustrator files into InDesign, natively, with live fonts active and editable, as this video demonstrates. Watch how easy it is to open an Illustrator file (.ai document) as a NEW Adobe InDesign file (.indd document), via PDF2DTP. Convert Ai to INDD, with a click! Get full vector elements, lines, graphs, fonts, and such, from Illustrator into InDesign, on the Mac!

Note: Markzware's stand-alone PDFMarkz application replaces the PDF2DTP InDesign plug-in and allows users to open PDF files in InDesign, Affinity Publisher, and other formats: https://markzware.com/products/pdfmarkz/

Adobe Illustrator to InDesign versions is possible, via file conversion, using a Markzware solution. Illustrator to InDesign, with a click!

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Hi. David Dilling, for Markzware. Today, we're going to show you how you can get Adobe Illustrator files, right into Adobe InDesign, natively, so you could edit what you like. Many will know Markzware's PDF2DTP (which you see now, up top, in InDesign, under the “Markzware” menu item) for its ability to convert PDF files, right into Adobe InDesign.

This will convert any PDF file. It doesn't matter where it really came from, in most cases. It could come from a CAD program. It could come from QuarkXPress, FrameMaker, PageMaker, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop. It doesn't really matter, even a web page has been created into a PDF. Markzware's PDF2DTP will convert PDF files.

Just click on a PDF you want to convert. You click “Open”, and it starts converting that PDF, right into InDesign, with full layers, photos, pictures, graphics, stylization, you name it. And there you see it, a wonderful full conversion.

However, many people may not realize that Markzware's PDF2DTP can also convert, natively, Adobe Illustrator files. For instance, here, we have a file, with live text; meaning I can edit this text. It's not converted to outlines. And, of course, we can copy and paste this into InDesign. But, then, you lose the live fonts.

So, for instance, we go like this. And we go into InDesign CC. We make a new file and we paste it, in there. What you see is that the font selection … So, you see the fonts are now converted to outline, and that's not what we want. We want actual live fonts. We want all the lines, and layers, and vector graphics, right on over, natively, in InDesign. So, let's get out of Illustrator, here.

Let's go back, into InDesign, and show you how easy that is. You just go “Markzware” – “PDF2DTP” – “Convert PDF …” and you choose the one on the Desktop, we just had open. You click that .ai file. You get a host of options. By the way, tinkering with some of these can help conversion. I keep “Substitute Missing Fonts” off, because that can sort of mess up the layout sometimes. We click OK.

Now, the conversion begins, and we're converting that Illustrator file, saving a job folder on the Desktop, natively, right into Adobe InDesign. There you go.

And look at that! We now have live fonts. That means we can actually go, in here, and delete these fonts, or edit these fonts, as liked, and adjust matters, because we've not created to outline. Outline fonts like, here, down below, become all boxed up, like this. So, then, in effect, you can't actually edit the fonts. You can go into each individual object and you can stretch them and adjust them, but you can't actually edit them, any longer. That's Markzware's PDF2DTP for Illustrator to InDesign, converting your Adobe Illustrator artwork, right into Adobe InDesign CC or CS6. It's all possible, and we even have older versions.

And, if you cruise on over, to markzware.com, then you'll see, on our main home page, here, we have many products to offer graphic designers, publishers, prepress operators, alike. And under “Products”, you'll see “PDF2DTP”. If you click, there, you'll get full information on this already multi-award-winning plug-in, to convert your PDF files right into InDesign, but it will also convert your Adobe Illustrator files into InDesign, with a click. Markzware's PDF2DTP, check it out, today. This has been David Dilling, for Markzware, wishing you a fantastic day!
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Illustrator to InDesign