STYLES TURNED BUGGY!I started having an odd problem just today -- while on deadline, no less. When I copied in text from Word, as I do so often, I was unable to apply styles that were correct. The "character" palette says it is one thing, and the style that is "supposedly is" says another. I have no reason for this, and I cannot make it format properly, other than manually doing it using the character and paragraph palettes. Since I am formatting our Annual Report, and need the entire first draft done by tomorrow, I am a bit panicky. I have tried stripping out any formatting that might be coming in from Word by copying and pasting out of Notepad, even "plain text" email. Nothing has worked. It didn't do this on the rest of the document, but now it seems to do it on anything I add. Has this happened to anyone else, and can anyone provide any suggestions? Thanks so much for reading this.
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Sudden problem with styles not working properly! Help!
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Rather than copying, have you tried Place? Then when you get the place window and choose the "doc" document check Show import Options. In next window check Remove text and table formatting.
Word, and other word processing apps can have all sorts of stuff in them that screws up things in ID.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
Word, and other word processing apps can have all sorts of stuff in them that screws up things in ID.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
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Thank you for your suggestion -- I will try that. I have really never used "place" and had forgotten that option. I failed to mention that I am on a PC, using Windows XP Pro (I believe) and CS2. I work for a gov't agency, and "they" decided years ago to stop supporting Macs. The few of us still doing graphics are starting to build a formal case to switch to Macs. One has to wonder if I'd be having this problem. Thank you again, I will try that.
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Well, I tried placing the document, and I'm afraid it still does the same thing. It's very bizarre.
Here's literally what I'm getting ... there are two fonts I'm using, a Helvetica Neue and Diotima. I'm using the Helvetica for body text and the Diotima for subheads, main heads, etc. When I place or copy the text in, it still is Times New Roman. When I try to apply my body text style, it turns the text into Calligraph 810, the font I USED to instead of Diotima (not the Helvetica). It keeps it the same size (10 pt), but the leading is what I used to have for body text leading. If I try to apply the subheads, which should be the Diotima 22 pt, it makes it Calligraph810 10pt.
So, as I write this, it occurs to me, it's the darned Calligraph 810 that seems posessed. I think I will try removing this font from my system. Sorry to bog this down with my lengthy explanations. It's helping me, and with any luck, maybe I'm on to something. THANKS! (I'll let you know what happens.)
Here's literally what I'm getting ... there are two fonts I'm using, a Helvetica Neue and Diotima. I'm using the Helvetica for body text and the Diotima for subheads, main heads, etc. When I place or copy the text in, it still is Times New Roman. When I try to apply my body text style, it turns the text into Calligraph 810, the font I USED to instead of Diotima (not the Helvetica). It keeps it the same size (10 pt), but the leading is what I used to have for body text leading. If I try to apply the subheads, which should be the Diotima 22 pt, it makes it Calligraph810 10pt.
So, as I write this, it occurs to me, it's the darned Calligraph 810 that seems posessed. I think I will try removing this font from my system. Sorry to bog this down with my lengthy explanations. It's helping me, and with any luck, maybe I'm on to something. THANKS! (I'll let you know what happens.)
Appears to be a font mapping problem try typing something directly in the ID doc and apply the style. If it comes out bad, you're style or font mapping are acting up. Create a new style (not based on another) and redo to your needs. Then check that on your ID doc. If that's botched, it indocates that your machine is mapping one font to another. The only cure I know for that is uninstalling both fonts and reinstalling (on a PC). On a mac you'd trash the font caches.
In case you're still bringing an unwanted style from Word, You can try saving the Word doc as TXT. Use that to place in ID.
Some more options.
Open the Word doc, select all, and make the font Helvetica (whatever helve family you're using) and save the Word doc. Use that for placing and don't click the remove formatting. That will give you the Helve body you want.
Make sure that you have NOT assigned a character or paragraph style to the text box you're using to place the Word doc.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
In case you're still bringing an unwanted style from Word, You can try saving the Word doc as TXT. Use that to place in ID.
Some more options.
Open the Word doc, select all, and make the font Helvetica (whatever helve family you're using) and save the Word doc. Use that for placing and don't click the remove formatting. That will give you the Helve body you want.
Make sure that you have NOT assigned a character or paragraph style to the text box you're using to place the Word doc.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
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