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• • March 6, 2016 at 11:29 am #82669
    Franz Budny

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    Hello,

    I hope someone can help me with this?

    Firstly, I am aware of the options when pasting from other softwares/apps into indesign; you can select paste text only, or paste text with all the formating by simply ticking a box in clipboard handling preferences, BUT… When I paste into indesign from pages all the formating is pasted (text, font, italics) but not the paragraphs. A practical example of what I mean is:

    Text in pages:

    Hi I’m a new line,

    Hello, I’m line number two!

    THE END!

    Indesign:

    Hi I’m a new line,Hello, I’m line number two!THE END!

    Has anyone experienced this issue?

    Thank you kindly.

    Franz

  • March 7, 2016 at 9:55 am #82701
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    I can confirm that behaviour with Pages 5.2 and InDesign CS6.

    The same thing happens both when pasting into an existing text box in ID, and also when pasting on a blank page with the arrow tool selected.
    If I paste the Pages text into TextEdit, it pastes OK (with proper line breaks), and if I copy that from TextEdit into ID, it also pastes OK.
    If I add an additional “newline” (Shift-Return) between the lines in Pages, it pasted into ID with new lines but also with a pink unrecognised character at the line ends.
    In all the above cases, other formatting (size, bold, italic) was preserved.

    If I use a plain text editor as an intermediate stage (TextWrangler), I lose the formatting but get the paragraph marks
    Odd.

    Sorry, I don’t have a solution, other than a workaround of paste into TextEdit as an intermediate stage.

    Good luck,
    Chris.

  • March 9, 2016 at 11:15 am #82778
    Franz Budny

    Member

    Thank you ever so much for your e-mail Chris.

    It’s such a shame that we have to stretch this much in order to manage to get the text formatting together.

    I did follow your tip on posting it into TextEdit from Pages and then into ID. The lines were perfect; but then I lost all the italics. If at least I was able to get the formatting from TextEdit, that would be just fine, so this is such a shame: I get the line breaks but lose the italics which is so important, yet so time consuming to go through every single work and edit.

    I hope someone out there has also experienced this same issue, so perhaps they’ll have another tip on this.

    Cheers,

    Franz

  • March 9, 2016 at 3:53 pm #82796
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Can’t you export as a Word file and then copy and paste the Word file or import the Word file?

  • March 10, 2016 at 1:31 am #82807
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    It’s odd that the italic isn’t in fact retained when you copy via TextEdit – other text attributes (font choice &size) are retained, but bold and italic aren’t.
    Bold and Italic do get retained on a direct paste from Pages (but obviously with the messed-up line breaks).

    I just tried copy-paste via Word (2008 Mac), and the italics and bold *are* retained in that route.

    Dwayne – I just did an export from Pages to Word docx format, and copy-pasted that text from Word into ID: anything originally in Times was “pink highlighted” by ID, which was now looking for Times Roman.

    What a mess.
    Chris.

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