Pagemaker Tags on InDesign???

[satchi]

Hello,

Recently, my office just purchased Adobe's InDesign (+ pagemaker plug-in version) and we've been using PageMaker 6.5. Now, whenever I try to 'place' (CTRL+D or File-->Place) a report into a template, the style tags that were in the report does not get converted; instead the tags are placed directly onto the template as if it's text (eg. a <L1> tag literally becomes <L1> text).

From my understanding, InDesign is the continuation of PM so I would assume there are tag reading, but where is it??

Please help! Thanks in advance,

satchi

 

[MarcusStringer]

Please Check the help menu in InDesign and/or do a search in this Forum (which I know will give you a result)

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[satchi]

Hi, I have done a search, but it appears those solutions didn't help my specific problem. As for the help menu, I couldn't find it either. Maybe i missed it, but it just wasn't there.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Hi Satchi,
Sorry for short answer before.
If you have a look at the below thread it may lead you in the right direction.
thread818-928046

This is from the Help in InDesign.

You can import (or export) a text file capable of taking advantage of InDesign's formatting capabilities by using the tagged text format. Tagged-text files are text files containing information describing the formatting you want InDesign to apply. Properly tagged text can describe almost anything that can appear in an InDesign story, including all paragraph-level attributes, character-level attributes, and special characters.

For information on specifying tags, open the Tagged Text.PDF document, which is located in the Tagged Text folder in the Adobe Technical Info folder on the InDesign CS CD

I Hope this helps


Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[satchi]

Thanks for the followup MarcusStringer. I think I checked there already, but I'll check again. Maybe I missed something, Thanks.

 

[garbanius]

1. All text in the file have to be writen like this
--------------------------
<ANSI-WIN> or <ANSI-MAC>
<ParaStyle:L1>some text
<ParaStyle:L2>other <CharStyle:A2>text
------------------------

2. when place the text file, select "show text import options"