How do I import a PNG file into Adobe Illustrator?

Question

I have several PNG files I want to resize and place in an Adobe Illustrator poster.

Answer 1

File/Open and look for file click open on requestor

Answer 2

Placing artwork from other applications, such as Adobe Photoshop, into Adobe Illustrator is easily performed

using various Adobe Illustrator commands.

Illustrator can import many common graphic file formats, including EPS, CorelDRAW

TM

, FreeHand

TM

, GIF, JPEG,

PICT, TIFF, DXF/ DWG, Adobe PDF, and PostScript

®

Level 3. In addition to these common graphic file formats,

Illustrator can use artwork in any file format supported by an Adobe Photoshop-compatible file format plug-in

filter, including Kodak Photo CD

TM

, PNG, and TGA.

You can use the Clipboard and drag-and-drop importing to bring images into Illustrator. However, two

commands are most commonly used when importing artwork created by other applications:

The Open command opens a file created by another application as a new Adobe Illustrator file. The Place

command places an image in an existing Illustrator file in one of two ways.

However, the “ Place” command is used for importing the flies directly into the existing Adobe Illustrator file you

are working.

Note: Select OR Create a layer (as explained in TUTORIAL # D1) before inserting the artwork into

Adobe Illustrator. This makes working with multiple artworks earlier.

STEP - I. Place and Link Files Created by Other Applications:

1.

Open the file into which you want to place the artwork.

2.

In the “File” menu select “Place..”

3.

A “Place” dialog box will appear.

4.

Locate and select the file you want to place. If you don’t see the name of the file you want, the file has

been saved in a format that Illustrator cannot read.

5.

Do one of the following:

- To create a link between the artwork file and the Illustrator file, make sure the Link option is selected

in the Place dialog box.

- To embed the artwork in the Illustrator file, deselect the Link option in the Place dialog box by a right

click of the mouse.

6.

Click Place. The artwork is placed into the Illustrator file as either a linked or an embedded image,

depending on the option you selected in the Place dialog box.

7.

Adjust the placed artwork as required.

Note: If you are placing an AutoCAD drawing, a DXF/DWG Options dialog box appears. Hit OK with the default

options. If you are placing a photoshop document a “Photoshop Import” dialog box will appear. Select Convert

Photoshop layers to objects for maintaining the separate layers OR Select Flatten Photoshop layers to a single

image to have a single image with no separate layers.

Answer 3

Ahh, good old postscripting issues. Takes me back. Those lines, are tiles. Postscript tiles. I believe user amybeader is the first person to actually recognize that you're not talking about a printed document but you wrote "adobe file" and that tripped a few people up. You, of course, wanted to EXPORT (not print) your InDesign file to a PDF. Here's your plan: go to FILE> EXPORT and name your file and place it somewhere you can get it (how I love the desktop!) after it's been constructed. Once you've chosen the place and named the file and pressed the SAVE button, you'll be taken to a large dialog window with many options. It'll look similar to the print dialog window, but slightly different. There will, however, be a bunch of presets at the top of the window which are pre-packaged with InDesign. In my opinion, they're jumping off points, not the be-all-end-all of PDF-dom. Once you've made your PDF settings and exported the PDF, and open it in Acrobat, you'll immediately notice a difference in the quality of your work. I wanted to add 2 important questions/statements: #1: Illustrator can SAVE your illustrations as PDFs directly. Unless you're placing your artwork into an InDesign document because you want to incorporate it into a layout, you don't REALLY need InDesign to PDF your work. The big three applications of the Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign) all can export your work into PDFs -- and in 2 cases, you can re-open your PDFs back into the originating application if you want to edit it (provided that you click the 'make compatible PDF' check box. #2: You may have flattening issues when it comes to your image if you have text below your placed Illustrator graphic in InDesign. This has to do with how objects interact and are placed in a PDF. It's considered a common occurrence. If you're finding that my primary answer STILL hasn't resolved your issue, then it may be time to look at your layout and make sure that you use the flattener preview in InDesign (located under Window>Output>Flattener Preview). If your document or artwork contains transparency, to be output it usually needs to undergo a process called flattening. Flattening divides transparent artwork into vector-based areas and rasterized areas. As artwork becomes more complex (mixing images, vectors, type, spot colors, overprinting, and so on), so does the flattening and its results. Flattening may be necessary when you print or when you save or export to other formats that don’t support transparency. To retain transparency without flattening when you create PDF files, save your file as Adobe PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5.0) or later. You can specify flattening settings and then save and apply them as transparency flattener presets. Transparent objects are flattened according to the settings in the selected flattener preset. Note: Transparency flattening cannot be undone after the file is saved.