If you look at the Preferences menu in Illustrator or InDesign you’ll see a whole section dedicated to Clipboard behaviour.The request for converting InDesign to Word is most likely something a designer comes across at some point.ĭesigning brochures, annual reports, info sheets, posters, and print materials of any kind, the software programs designers use are Adobe Indesign and Illustrator. Adobe have deliberately built a lot of cross-compatibility into the clipboard of each application. When working between Adobe applications things are a little different. When copying from non-Adobe applications the content is cached in the system memory (clipboard) in a generic format, typically PICT, and will not always reproduce well. If we were to copy an image from Word, for example, and paste this into InDesign or Illustrator we end up with a low resolution, RGB ‘pasted’ graphic – there is no link to the original image as we have only copied the ‘preview’ data from Word. When printing or exporting our document the data from our linked graphic is then used and we end up with a lovely, shiny high resolution image in our final print, PDF etc… happy days! These are then ‘linked graphics’– the image we see is a preview that is used for size and positioning only. In the interest of fairness I should point out that as a general rule when working in Illustrator or InDesign the correct way to use images in your layout is to place them. In fact there are cases where it’s perfectly acceptable to copy and paste between these applications and some instances where it’s actually an advantage. The poster of the problem happened to mention ‘pasting’ some Illustrator artwork into InDesign and was advised that you should always ‘place’ into InDesign. Whilst doing some research the other day I came across a thread on a related issue on the Adobe forums.
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