Adobe InDesign Tagged Text - Manual (Page 6)

2 USING INDESIGN TAGGED TEXT
Adobe InDesign CS5 Tagged Text
Last updated 4/21/2010
4 Specify a name and location for the file, and click Save. (If you’re saving the file using Mac OS, add a .txt extension
to the end of the filename if you want to open the file in Windows.)
5 In the Adobe InDesign Tagged Text Export Options dialog box, specify the following options:
• Select Verbose to show the tags in long form, such as or Abbreviated to show the tags in
short form, such as .
• Select the encoding format, such as ASCII (the most common format for representing English characters as
numbers), ANSI (a collection of many international characters and special punctuation marks that can be inserted
using the Alt/Option key), Unicode (a standard that supports most language characters, including non-European
languages), Shift-JIS (MS-Kanji for Japanese characters), GB 18030 (the official character set of the People’s
Republic of China), Big 5 (encoding for Traditional Chinese characters), and KSC5601 (encoding for Korean
characters).
6 Click OK.
The story text is exported as a text file. You can use a word-processing application or a text editor to open and edit the
tagged text file.
Import tagged text
1 Open the document into which you will place the tagged text, and choose File > Place.
2 Locate and select the text-only tagged file.
3 If desired, select Show Import Options.
4 Click Open.
5 If you selected Show Import Options in the Place dialog box, select any of the following:
Use Typographer’s Quotes Ensures that imported text includes left and right quotation marks (“ ”) and apostrophes
(’) instead of straight quotation marks (" ") and apostrophes (').
Remove Text Formatting Removes formatting such as typeface, type color, and type style from the imported text.
Resolve Text Style Conflicts Using Lets you specify which character or paragraph style is applied when there is a
conflict between the style in the tagged text file and the style in your document. Select Publication Definition to use
the definition that already exists for that style name in the document. Select Tagged File Definition to use the style as
defined in the tagged text. This option creates another instance of the style with “copy” appended to its name in the
Character Style or Paragraph Style panel.
Show List Of Problem Tags Before Place Displays a list of unrecognized tags. If a list appears, you can choose to cancel
or continue the import. If you continue, the file may not look as expected.
6 Click OK.
The text appears at the insertion point or replaces selected text. If there is no text selection or insertion point, a loaded
text icon appears. You can click inside an existing frame to place the text inside it, or you can click or drag to create a
new text frame.