: Missing objects during resizing after copying/pasting from Illustrator to InDesign After copying a group of objects (including some containing clipping masks) from Illustrator to InDesign some of

@Hamm6457569

Its the Anchors!!!!

An Anchor can link to anything. You delete that thing (a word, a letter, a full point, whatever - it will also delete whatever is anchored to it.

You may never have used Anchors, but it's so easy to Anchors objects by mistake.

Release the Anchors

Select all on page
Object ... Anchored Objects ... Release

I hate Anchors!!!!

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@Caterina889

Use File > Place and tick the Image Import Options in the place dialog window before clicking OK. You can then easily import only a single artboard from a multi-artbaord Illustrator file.

While InDesign has some vector tools, much like Photoshop, the core vector capabilities of InDesign are not designed to replace a true vector application such as Illustrator. By placing rather than pasting the image, Indesign treats the image as a container and references the original artwork after transforming (scaling) rather than trying to work out the vector math itself. It's fairly easy to overwhelm InDesign's vector engine with artwork.

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@Kevin459

It looks like you aren't selecting the missing objects.

Notice they didn't have the blue outline on them when you selected everything. Make sure your layers aren't locked and as @Scott suggested, save the file and just File > Place it rather than Copy/Pasting.

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