• Adobe InDesign

  Layers from an Illustrator file

  Posted by Jeff Cochran on August 3, 2011 at 8:10 pm

  Hello,

  I’m importing individual layers from an illusrator file using the the “Show Import Options” function in InDesign. I currently have 20 layers from the same .ai file imported as separated graphics. I recently opened the Illustrator file and made some changes.

  Now, when I update the graphics in InDesign, instead of updating the graphic with only the layer I originally imported, it updates each file with every layer in the illustrator file.

  Is there a way for me to have InDesign update just the layer?

  Thanks in advance for the help.

  Jeff

  Dwayne Smith replied 14 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Dwayne Smith

  August 8, 2011 at 2:52 am

  G’day Jeff,

  Yep, InDesign is a bit of a pain in that way. If you add, delete, or rename layers in your source file InDesign doesn’t know how to handle your original Object Layer Options — so it imports all visible layers. If you just edit content on the various layers, you’re fine — but make edits to the layers themselves and you got yourself a world or arrgh.

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