garmp wrote:
I am a retired Graphic Artist and my Adobe line of products is quite antiquated, but works. Can't afford upgrades as I only do work for our Elks Lodge and a friend or two. InDesign & Illustrator should be a smooth link as they are both of the same Creative Suite of Adobe products. Publisher is always the bane of graphic artists. Rather than fight with it, have it converted to a PDF, a couple of online free sites, then open the pdf in illustrator. My old CS4 Illustrator handles it pretty good. Still might have to correct a couple of things, font alignment, spacing, even some frames and/or rules, etc. But better than rebuilding from scratch.
PM me if I can help.
One would think that if the software was from the same company that it would be "seamless" to be able to move items between that companies programs..
I am here to tell you no, that is not the case with newer Adobe products.. Spent a few long, long evenings with my DD trying to find ways to get some of her art work moved between InDesign and Illustrator and toss in some artwork done outside of Adobe products..
Heck some of the art done in older versions of InDesign and Illustrator can't be imported without it breaking something :h DD had artwork she did in HS VoTech which had older versions of the software. We could not find a way to bring that into newer versions of Adobe software..
Each product and version has it's own rules and layers and how it handles all of that so what you get when importing is not always how you intended or wanted it to be.
Converting to PDF sometimes can get around things but in doing so, you have to do what is called "flattening" the image (this is done at the time of conversion to PDF).. Flattening is a process that takes all of the layers and glues them into one single uneditible flat layer.. Flattening removes your chances of editing the layers and it is treated as a single layer..
