From the course: Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign Powercombo for Design
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Placing and updating an Illustrator file
From the course: Photoshop-Illustrator-InDesign Powercombo for Design
Placing and updating an Illustrator file
- [Instructor] Did you know you can place an Adobe Illustrator file in another Illustrator file? Adobe Illustrator works a little bit like Adobe InDesign. So imagine you have some complex artwork that uses specific swatches, complex layer structure, symbols, brushes, or text styles. Copying and pasting everything over into a second document will bring in all of these as well, which might not have been your intention. And as some people like to select all and group everything together first, you should remember that grouping items will also alter their layer structure. Sometimes resulting in other problems. Instead, let's place the file safely and easily instead. Here, I'm inside of Adobe Illustrator, and I have a file open that's using two different art boards. And every art board is presenting one version of my barbershop logo. Now, I have a second document as well. And here, I need to use that logo. So, what I can…
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