Greetings all.
Here’s a scenario that’s driving me crazy in InDesign CC (though the same problem existed in InDesign CS6).
I have imported my XML and used the map tags to styles to make, for example, the “sup” tag map to a character style named funnily enough, “sup” and have dragged a quite a few nodes on pages. I have formatted the paragraphs and everything is great.
Oops. What’s this? A new tag has been introduced in the XML that I hadn’t accounted for. Let’s call this new tag groan (you’ll see why later).
No problem. Off I go to the tags panel, and map the tag groan to a character style named groan.
Here’s where I moan and groan. Once I click OK, the formatting I had in place gets screwed up! Any paragraph style that I had applied to a paragraph that is not mapped to a particular tag has lost it’s formatting!
Adobe even mentions this in one of its PDFs but I can’t remember where I saw this PDF. What’s the matter with these software engineers? Can’t they see that this is a major problem? Imagine having formatted a 300 page book, the client resupplies some new XML at the last minute and you have to map a new tag to an existing character style. Your document is ruined.
Or is it just me? Has anyone else experienced this problem?
I look forward to any solutions. I tried duplicating the document, updating the map tags to styles, gone to my original document, used the Load button and the same thing happens.
Pull your finger out Adobe. Fix this!
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