You may modify the detailed settings to meet your needs (especially image downsampling and format), but as-is, they will normally provided very high quality graphics. For the options, choose the Adobe Preset labelled PDF/X-4:2008 which actually uses the PDF/X-4:2010 standard. Rather, a more reliable workflow practice is to use the Save as Copy and select PDF. That having been said, I most strongly recommend that Illustrator files not be placed into InDesign.

This is non-lossy, but could result in unnecessarily large files. AI files, raster imagery is saved as if when explicitly saving PDF, the image settings are for ZIP-compressed, non-downsampled images.

In other words, it is possible that you lose synchronization between the Illustrator content versus the PDF content, noting that what gets placed in InDesign is the PDF content, not the Illustrator source content which is stored in the PDF file as private data ( PieceInfo).Īnother issue to be aware of is that when saving PDF-compatible. AI files in Acrobat or other PDF file manipulation products, it is possible that the PDF portion may be modified without modifying the source Illustrator content. AI file, not only are the ICC profiles missing, but the objects are specified as DeviceCMYK or DeviceRGB, very likely resulting in color anomalies in your InDesign document for the placed content and resulting final output.įurthermore, since it is possible to open such PDF-compatible. AI file can be placed into an InDesign document, if the ICC profiles are not in the PDF-compatible. AI cannot be placed successfully into an InDesign document! Although the third consideration above doesn't affect whether the. (3) The option for including ICC profiles is selected. (2) The Create PDF Compatible File option is selected. (1) The Version specified is Illustrator 10 or newer. AI files that can be successfully placed into InDesign if the following three are true based on the options specified when first saving the Illustrator file:

Actually, InDesign doesn't place Illustrator files it places PDF files.

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