Expert: Kevin Stohlmeyer - 4/14/2008

Question
I have a large map file in Illustrator. I want to crop out specific areas to be
imported into an InDesign file. If I export the entire image as an eps or pdf,
when I import this file into InDesign and I need to turn on high resolution
preview to align the image and perform other tasks the file is very slow and is
basically unworkable. If I crop out specific areas from the illustrator file using
the crop area command even that function is slow and because I will have to
perform this task about 100 times in this file this isn't the answer either. I am
making an atlas in InDesign. Any suggestions?

Answer
Hi Karen,

Unfortunately your assessment is correct - you can either crop out your image in Illustrator using the crop tool and export/import in all the images separately which is a slow workflow or import one large file and deal with the slow speed in the application. Your situation really doesn't help.

The easier suggestion is to create each page separately in InDesign and merge them all back into one doc at the end. The other is to really boost your RAM on your computer.


Thanks

Kevin