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Can't figure out WHY I can't place RTF file–I do see Overset, but can't find problem!

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    • August 2, 2012 at 1:23 pm #62744
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Hello from the novice Texas Hill Country CS5 Indesigner who wants to beat her head against the wall.

      Several months ago, I had a formatter do a book I wrote, and asked him to send me an Indesign copy (since I wanted to do another version of the book and learn Indesign myself!! I'm brave….or stupid).

      But….it completely failed to be placed into my own Indesign CS5–it says V3.indd, which I assume is CS3. From what I've read, I guess it's pretty useless when you have a different version. :( :(

      I then tried to place the RTF version—THAT failed. i.e. it won't load past page 17. grrrrrr. I read and read and did see a video about the Overset, and looking in the Style to see what might be wrong, etc. But I can find nothing to explain the problem.

      Helppppppp….in my little tiny 5' 3″ Texas voice……

    • August 2, 2012 at 3:02 pm #62748
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Are you trying to Place the InDesign file into another InDesign file? Or Open their InDesign file?

      As for the RTF file not importing all the way, this might help:

      https://creativepro.com/the…..g-text.php

    • August 2, 2012 at 11:46 pm #62751
      Gert Verrept
      Member

      David's suggestion is very good, but what we often encounter in rtf-files (and others) is that the footnotes are, before formatting, longer than the text on one page. The solution is setting the doc footnote options to “allow split footnotes”.

      If layout is of no impotance, save the rtf as a txt-file and import that one.

      Another trick, make a parastyle as basic as possible, import the rtf-file, select all and apply the “basic style”.

    • August 5, 2012 at 9:14 pm #62758
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Hi Gert. I don't understand your reply. A footnote is something I have at the bottom of a page, referring to from what website I am quoting. Are you referring to another meaning for footnote? Because as stated above, when I try to place the RTF into my Indesign, it only goes to page 17. I am stumped.

    • August 5, 2012 at 10:13 pm #62762
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      And by the way, I followed this video to a T and still didn't find ANYTHING to explain what to fix.

      https://www.lynda.com/home/Play…..pter=False

    • August 5, 2012 at 11:25 pm #62766
      Gert Verrept
      Member

      Sorry, indeed, footnotes come at the bottom of the page, but if the footnote text itself it too big, and the option “allow split footnotes” (type menu) is off, indesign can stop flowing text at that point.

      If you have the indesign file, why not just opening it, instead of placing it? If the file is an cs3 version, cs5 should open it (with some errors due to the version difference) without much problems.

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