Insert (Place) Different Illustrator Artboards into InDesign

Learn how to access the various artboards within an Illustrator file when placing into InDesign. Details below...

When placing (inserting) an Illustrator file into InDesign, the first artboard will be placed by default. To place a different artboard, Show Import Options needs to be activated within the Place dialog box. This is a sticky option which means that it will be permanently on until deliberately turned off. To temporarily invoke Show Import Options, hold down Shift while clicking on the Open button. A second dialog box will be displayed with a section that allows for a specific artboard to be chosen from within the Illustrator file.

[atticusfinch]

12 years as a designer. Not once did I think to see if this was even an option. #GOAT

[gabrielladaymon]

Thank you so much! This was very straightforward and I was always confused on how this worked.

[amnaazouzi]

Thank you !!! it worked immediately, very happy to go to the next step now..

[alexwells]

brilliant, thank you. its easy when you know how!

[leothaking]

This helped a lot ! As always thank you.🙂

[esterschreiber]

This is very helpful! Do you know of any way to change the displayed artboard when the file has already been placed in the inDesign document?

[samdn]

How do you do that with drag and drop placing?

[samcasey]

Thanks. This is so unintuitive, Adobe really should offer another way to adjust this later.