Assuming that the vertical type is the only artwork on the artboard in Illustrator, this crop sets the crop-size to the bounding box size that you’d see in Illustrator when you select the artwork. To reduce the image area that is imported, set the Crop to Art.

ai file as a graphic using the File > Place command. To have control over the size of the image that is brought in, enable the Show Import Options. However, when copy and pasting vertical text from Illustrator into InDesign, you’ll find that although the colour of the text and the size (of the placed artwork) is still be editable, the text itself can no longer be altered. In some circumstance that might be desired. One thing to consider is that the artwork would from that moment forward be edited in InDesign itself. I wouldn’t recommend doing this with vertical type, especially if you intend to edit the text at some point.Ĭopying and pasting Illustrator artwork into InDesign can be useful, for instance when you are interested in bringing logo-type shapes as editable paths into InDesign. Although you can copy and paste from Illustrator into InDesign. Time now to bring the vertical type into Illustrator.

Save the text (image) as a native Illustrator file. You can do this at Character level (using the Character panel and tracking settings), or you can amend this setting as part of a Paragraph style you might be using. To decrease or increase the spacing between the characters, change the Tracking value. vertical type appears… How easy is that? (Let’s put this tool on our wishlist for future version of InDesign…) With this tool, just click anywhere in your artboard area and start typing… and tadaa…. For this exercise I’m using the first of the three available tools: The Vertical Type Tool. The Vertical Type Tool, Area Type Tool and Type on a Path Tool. Illustrator provides us with three different tools for setting vertical text. Illustrator in contrast to InDesign actually has a Vertical Type tool, and the close integration between the two applications means we can opt to set our type in Illustrator instead and bring it into InDesign as a graphic. In my previous post I provided a solution for setting type vertically in InDesign.

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