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• • September 30, 2011 at 8:43 am #60650
    Anonymous

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    I'm wondering if it's possible to export them (and import them). I see an option to import, but how do you export them? I'd like to have a number of them ready to use in other documents.

  • September 30, 2011 at 4:55 pm #60658
    Tom Pardy

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    How about creating those styles in a document, fine-tuning until you are happy with them? You could even delete the objects themselves from the document, once you were happy with them, provided their styles were safely in the Object Styles panel. Then do a Save As to copy that document with a new title (something like “Object Styles.indd”) in a suitable place.

    Then, whenever you wanted those styles in a document you were working on, use the Load Object Styles item in the pop-out menu of the Object Styles pallet to import them to your current document.

    It’s not, strictly speaking, an export. But it does give you the equivalent of a library of object styles. You could even add new styles to it as your needs changed. Once you load all the object styles into your current document, delete the ones you don’t want.

  • October 2, 2011 at 2:53 am #60659
    Theunis De Jong

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    Markny8,

    I see an option to import, but how do you export them?

    That's the same for a number of formatting objects — paragraph and character styles, variables, master pages, perhaps some more. The intent was not to be able to export them, but rather the reverse: import them from an existing document. If you select any of the “Load xxx” menu items, the file list will default to “Readable documents” which only will contain actual InDesign documents.

    So if you want some sort of repository, you could indeed follow Furry's advice and store all of them in a single document.

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