QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS4 Conversion Guide

ectangle you drag. InDesign CS4
automatically scales the image to
fill that frame.
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Click an empty frame to place the
image into it.
Note that if a text insertion point is
blinking when you place a graphic,
the graphic is automatically placed
as an anchored object that flows with
the surrounding text.
You can select multiple files in the
Place dialog box—including a mix
of graphics and text files—and then
place the files, in whatever order you
want, into existing frames or into
new frames. Press the arrow keys on
your keyboard to step through the
files loaded in the cursor icon.
If you don’t like the result after you
place a graphic, you can undo the
action (Edit > Undo Place) to return
to the loaded graphics icon. Then,
either place the graphic again, press
Esc to remove it from the Place icon,
or click any tool in the Tools panel to
clear the icon entirely.
Alternatively, with more than one
image loaded, you can hold down
Command+Shift (Mac OS) or
Ctrl+Shift (Windows) while you drag
to place them all in a grid, similar to
a contact sheet.
Copying Graphics
In addition to importing native
Illustrator files using the Place command,
you can also drag and drop
or copy and paste Illustrator vector
artwork files into InDesign to work
with them as editable objects. Some
Illustrator features, such as gradient
mesh, are not supported in InDesign,
so this technique should be reserved
for relatively simple artwork.
When you copy and paste or drag
and drop objects from Illustrator,
they’re displayed in InDesign as
a grouped collection of editable
objects. If you want to work with the
objects individually, select the group
with the Selection tool, and then
choose Object > Ungroup.
Note that in order for copy and paste
to work, the Copy As AICB option
must be selected in Illustrator Preferences,
and Prefer PDF When Pasting
must be deselected in InDesign
Preferences.
You can also copy objects from
InDesign and paste them into Adobe
Illustrator. However, text may be
converted to outlines when you paste
into Illustrator.
While you can copy and paste
pixel images from Photoshop into
InDesign, it is not recommended. It
is a better practice to use the Place
command instead.
You can choose to import (or drag) multiple images simultaneously in InDesign, and then
place them one at a time. The loaded cursor icon tells you how many images are queued
(left); as you place the images, the number indicator decreases (right).
Display Quality
InDesign offers several options for
displaying graphics onscreen. By
default, vector and bitmap images
are displayed using low-resolution
previews. To see better quality versions
of your pictures, choose View >
Display Performance > High Quality
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