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    • June 13, 2016 at 1:30 am #85667
      kadrin
      Member

      Hi everyone, I use Tibetan a lot in Indesign. Tibetan texts mix small font (e.g. size 12) and a larger font (e.g. size 18) all throughout the text (2 lines of font 12 followed by 8 lines of font size 18, followed by 1 line of 12 etc. The smaller font sticks to the upper side of the text box, meaning that the difference in size (6) shows as blank space underneath the small letters, a bit like superscript. When I copy my Tibetan texts into Indesign, all this formatting is lost. I would love to know of a way to keep this formatting as its loss transforms a two minute job into an intense 15 hour work-out.
      Thanks for any advice!

      PS I work with CS5

    • June 13, 2016 at 8:57 am #85680
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Using copy and paste is okay for simple text, but I would not recommend it with formatted text — and especially not with text with non-English language. Check out Diane Burns’ articles in issues 11–13 of InDesign Magazine where she discusses publishing foreign languages:
      https://creativepro.com/issues

    • June 14, 2016 at 12:36 pm #85751
      Michele Jarosz
      Member

      I think she’s talking about the font name, not the country

    • June 15, 2016 at 11:18 am #85790
      Colleen Shannon
      Member

      Preferences->Clipboard Handling->When Pasting Text and Tables from Other Applications-> choose: All Information

      https://i.imgur.com/1PZ7Yq2.png

      • June 15, 2016 at 2:49 pm #85799
        Dwayne Harris
        Member

        ^^That was my first thought, as well. But that doesn’t work for everything, at least in my experience. It may capture a lot, but sometimes not everything.
        And hopefully paragraph styles or character stylyes are used in the Word file (Or whatever the OP is copying from). If so, it should come through.
        I’ve always had issues when copying from Word to Indesign, and I’d much rather run my macros and tag the file and them place the text.

    • June 16, 2016 at 6:45 am #85815
      kadrin
      Member

      Hi All,

      Thank you so much for jumping on the wagon and wanting to help!
      You got me thinking outside my box, the box of my stuck ways of using Indesign and it worked!
      I found a way, which was to first do all the formatting in Word and then use Placing with the ‘show import options’.
      This worked but not all the time. However, once I saved the Word doc as .rtf and used this for placing, the problems resolved themselves.
      Then I used the Cmd F to make all the extra little formatting changes in Indesign, moving the baseline up etc.
      Very exciting.
      Now I will try to use character style in future I think, one for the big font and one for the small, and perhaps the problems I was encountering with the Clipboard handling could be helped by using .rtf and perhaps paragraph styles too.
      A lot to play with, I wonder how macros work!

      I was using the Tibetan font called SambothaDege. Its non-unicode counterpart Sambotha Font (Dedris and Ededris) are still causing me a few challenges in Indesign.
      It’s a steep learning curve for a beginner!

      Thank you so much for wanting to help, for sharing your knowledge and time with me!
      Kadrin

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