![]() If you try to import via XML, you have to set up styles for every html tag, and then still write a script to handle some stuff (especially images). Importing html into InDesign is problematic at best. For example, it doesn’t seem to capture text formatting from Firefox on the Mac, but it works fine when copying from Safari.Īnd, of course, it’s only going to copy local “hard” formatting from other applications you’d be best off replacing that formatting with paragraph and character styles once the text is inside InDesign. However, note that I said “some” applications. Change this from Text Only to All Information. Open the Preferences dialog box (Command/Ctrl+K) and look for the When Pasting Text option in the Clipboard Handling area. That’s a great feature when you need to strip away unwanted styles.įortunately, there’s also a way to maintain formatting when you paste it from some other applications. ![]() By contrast, if you copy and paste from one InDesign document into another, it maintains the formatting… unless you use Edit > Paste without Formatting. Any way around this?īy default, InDesign strips out all the formatting from incoming text when you copy and paste it from any other application. Convert Publisher Files to InDesign Using the Pub2ID pluginĬonvert Publisher to InDesign In a graphic design studio you'll see pretty much every format of document over time, and most of them can be either improved upon or converted for use in a more press-friendly program like InDesign or Quark XPress.I’ve just been hired to turn my online newspaper into print so I’m learning InDesign, but when I cut and paste anything into InDesign from NVU or Outlook Express, I lose all formatting and end up having to reformat everything. MS Publisher® can be a particularly unwieldy format to receive from a client, and more often than not we have to ask them to supply a PDF file which we can recreate from scratch, since there has been no reliable way (that I've found) to convert the files. Recreating files is time consuming though, so I was interested to hear about the Pub2ID* plugin (*now discontinued) from Markzware. I already use the Q2ID and ID2Q plugins which do a pretty good job of converting their respective formats, so I was confident that the Pub2ID plugin would perform similarly well and for the most part, it does. ![]() However, it'll never make as good a conversion as Q2ID or ID2Q because for all their differences, Quark and InDesign are in most functional respects extremely similar. Their built-in tools, shapes, text boxes, swatches, objects and text styles all behave in a similar way, making their conversions much more predictable. Unfortunately, Microsoft Publisher is more a law unto itself. It has built-in 'Word Art', 'Border Art', 'Gallery Design Objects', 'Fill Effects' and numerous other Publisher-specific attributes and elements, all of which make an accurate Publisher to InDesign conversion more difficult. Markzware (the author of Pub2ID) is very open about these issues, and the accompanying user guide gives very detailed descriptions of what is and isn't supported by the plugin (which works with both InDesign CS3 and CS4). As Markzware makes clear though, even an approximate conversion is a great deal less time consuming than recreating a document from scratch. The purpose of this article is to give an idea of what to expect from a standard conversion, with screenshots of the results you'll end up with. The Publisher files were created using MS Publisher® on a PC and converted using InDesign CS4 and Pub2ID on a Mac.Ĭonverting an MS Publisher Advert to InDesign Case StudyĪll of the following examples (except the last one) were created using the standard templates available in MS Publisher and weren't edited in any way. Here's a screenshot of the original advert in Publisher:Ĭonvert Publisher to InDesign: Publisher File EXPORT PUBLISHER TO INDESIGN FREE PC Here's a screenshot of the PDF version of the ad: When making any conversion it's a good idea to get your client to supply (if possible) a PDF file or a screenshot along with the Publisher document so you can get an idea of how the finished item is supposed to look.
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