Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 151)

All items on the PageMaker pasteboard appear on the pasteboard of the first spread in the InDesign document.
All objects designated in PageMaker as Non-Printing are converted with Nonprinting selected in the InDesign Attributes panel.
Grouped objects remain grouped except where nonprinting items are included in a group.
Text and tables conversion issues
Note the following:
Text is converted to InDesign text frames.
Tables in PageMaker files are converted to InDesign tables.
Styles are converted to InDesign styles. The [No style] in PageMaker is the equivalent of [No Paragraph Style] in InDesign. However, [No
Paragraph Style] picks up the attributes of a named style if that style was selected before any typing occurred in the PageMaker publication.
InDesign uses the Adobe Paragraph Composer for all paragraphs, causing some text to reflow. You can assign the Adobe Single-Line
Composer to one or more paragraphs to create line breaks more similarly to the PageMaker composition engine, but text may still reflow.
InDesign uses only Baseline leading. Proportional and Top of Caps leading in PageMaker convert to Baseline leading in InDesign, possibly
resulting in text shifting.
The First Baseline of converted text may appear different than text created in InDesign. The First Baseline of converted text is set to Leading,
but the First Baseline of text created in InDesign is set to Ascent by default.
InDesign uses a different hyphenation method than PageMaker, so line breaks may be different.
Shadow text converts as plain text. Outline text converts as text with a stroke of 0.25 inches and a fill of Paper.
Book, index, and TOC conversion issues
Note the following:
InDesign ignores Booklists when opening PageMaker publications. If you want to open all the publications on a Booklist together, run the
Build Booklet plug-in in PageMaker with a layout of None selected so that the booked publications are combined into one. Note that text
blocks and frames will no longer be threaded.
Index entries from a PageMaker publication appear in the InDesign Index panel. Text with cross-references that use the See Herein or See
Also Herein option are mapped as See or See Also.
Table of Contents text converts as a Table of Contents, with PageMaker TOC Style available in the style pop-up menu in the InDesign TOC
dialog box.
Linking and embedding conversion issues
Note the following:
Text and graphics links are preserved and appear in the Links panel.
If InDesign cannot locate the original link to a graphic, a warning appears asking you to repair the link in PageMaker.
InDesign does not support OLE (object linking and embedding). Consequently, when you open files that contain OLE graphics, those
graphics will not appear in the InDesign document.
Color and trapping conversion issues
Note the following:
Colors are converted exactly to InDesign colors. PageMaker HLS colors are converted to RGB colors, and colors from other color libraries
are converted based on their CMYK values.
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