[Mgondek]

There is no way to increase the size of bezier points/handles.

Try turning on view >> Smart guides. This might help you better target your bezier point/handles.

[Mgondek]

Not that I know of. You can copy characters to the clipboard in Illustrator and paste them into InDesign, but the formatting is lost.

It is easier to go the other way as you can save a pdf from InDesign and open that pdf in Illustrator with most eidtability intact, except some lines of type get broken.

[Mgondek]

Outline stroke is very useful, as it changes a single stroked vector path, into a filled shape. Once you have a filled shape there are many more things you can do to that object such as a gradient mesh.

The real professional designs ts in Illustrator don’t come from canned effects in pull down menus(anyone can do that), but using your creative mind and the extensive tools Illustrator has to manually create custom design.

[Mgondek]

Not sure I understadn your question, but it sounds like you need to copy the organic image you want to use as a matte to the clipboard. Go to the layer you wish to matter and create a new layer mask, click on the layer mask, and paste your clipboard contents into the layer mask, then click back into your artwork.

[Mgondek]

Sure buddy this is easy just use Alt[ or Alt ] to move up or down a layer.

If not you can reference them under edit >> keyboard shortcuts.

[Mgondek]

Do a Command I on the file and check to se what the open with command is set to open .PSDs with.

[Mgondek]

Yes this must be annoying, and your problem comes from soemthing very simple. The open command must recoed a filename when creating an action.

It is a shame cause actions record much detail about the settings used in a raw conversion.

But I think I have found a solution. When choosing batch there is a checkbox for Overide Action open command. Make sure that checkbox is checked and I believe that si what I used ion the past to get the result you need. Let me know how things turn out have to work again this weekend put out some fires.

[Mgondek]

Markzware has ID2Q for converting InDesign to Quark.
https://www.markzware.com/product/utilities.html

You can save as PDF and open that in Illustrator to convert to Illustrator. You can then place that in Quark.

[Mgondek]

Do exactly what you did, but don’t group. Your objective is to make a compound path with no extra groups or compound paths.