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For those of you who plan to use Adobe Illustrator with InDesign, which is another Adobe application which is primarily suited for Desktop Publishing, you know, the creation of magazines and newsletters and books, well let me show you how to get your artwork out of Illustrator into InDesign. Now the interesting thing about this particular lesson is that the Creative Suite that I have to purchase every year is not the one that includes InDesign because I don't do Desktop Publishing for the most part, so my InDesign is version CS3 and this is kind of cool because I'll show you how you can use your artwork from a newer version of an application and still be compatible, somewhat, with an older version, what's known as a Legacy version. So I'm going to go to File and I'm going to go Save As and on my Desktop I'm going to save this as Hannibal 2, so I can just have a different version from the one that's on my Desktop and as you can see here, I'm going to save it as Adobe Illustrator. I'll hit Save and then this is the important part. InDesign is looking for this right here, it's looking for the PDF-compatible version of your document, so make sure you have this checkmark on. Also, in the Version category, you can choose to go to a Legacy Format if you want to so that you can be compatible with an earlier version of the application that you want to use. So I'm going to choose Illustrator CS3. Now, all kinds of bells are starting to go off because it's going to tell you that you may lose some changes to your document and some compatibility which means, let's say you have Illustrator CS5. Well, it may have a whole bunch of bells and whistles that InDesign CS3 simply doesn't understand because they weren't developed at the same time. So if a new effect that I have in my Illustrator document doesn't work in that version it may very well not show up. So, in that case, if you needed to have this artwork inside of your application it might be best to take a screen shot of it, or to save it as another version, so what I'm going to do is save it as Illustrator CS3, make sure this guy's on, understand fully that things might go away and hit OK. Alright, it's going to tell me once again, hey, man, this is a Legacy Format and you might have some changes and it's going to tell you to disable some of the things that may give you trouble. So I'm going to Yes, I'm going to continue. Alright, so what I'm going to do now is head over to InDesign and show you that we can't open this inside of InDesign. If we choose File, Open and you look on my Desktop here, these are ghosted out, even though I have all readable documents open because it's not going to work with this file format. So how do I get this in? I have to Place it. File, Place and I'll choose this guy here and I'm going to select Show Import Options. Now if you don't select this your artwork will come in just fine as one piece of artwork, but if you might want to turn off the Layers that you have you can choose this option here and you'll see what I'm saying in just a moment. You'll now have a New Document dialog box that appears and I can go to where it says Layers here and I can turn things off or on, so I can go to my Logo, for example and now I can deselect it and when I bring this guy in I'll get my cursor that has no logo on it but I have a cursor that allows me to now drag and when I let go of my mouse the artwork is there but the logo is not and that's why having that option is very important. So, what I can also do is I can right-click on my artwork and choose Edit Original. It'll take me back into Illustrator and let's say I change the color of the character so I'll make him yellow and he's going to be pretty angry about that so please don't tell Hannibal about that. He's not yellow, he's a mammoth. So I'm going to change him to yellow. I'm going to save this file and I'll hop back over to InDesign and it updates automatically. So it's a really great way to work with other people so that the art department can always be in sync with the graphics department who is doing the layout of the magazine. They might say to you, hey, change the color of this bottle to red, or change it to green, you can do that and it'll update because it'll update on the server or wherever you have your files for your production. So that is how you can use InDesign in conjunction with Adobe Illustrator.