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Sheldon_Zacharias
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February 1, 2011
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Import TLF markup into InDesgin CS5 or CS5 Server

  • February 1, 2011
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Can anyone tell me if there is a way to import the TLF markup into InDesign?  Is it possbile to translate the TLF markup into an IDML format?  I need to push text from a Flex app into InDesign while preserving all formatting.  Would it be better to use the TLF markup or the TLF html export option?  Any direction you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

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robin_briggs
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February 1, 2011

It is possible to translate TLF markup into IDML, but I think you'd have to write it yourself. I haven't done it, but I would think you could write an XSLT script for the conversion. If you take this path, and you're feeling generous, you could post the resulting XSLT back here and earn gratitude from other folks with the same problem.

Using HTML as the mechanism is problematic, but worth considering. First issue is that TLF doesn't export regular HTML, it exports a special TextField-style HTML, and much of the formatting (not all) is stripped out, although things that TextField could do are represented. Also, InDesign doesn't import HTML (I don't think it does) although you may find a plug-in that can. If I were to use HTML, I would expect that getting it from TLF to some other text based tool like Microsoft Word that understands HTML, and then copy it out of Word and paste it into InDesign might work. I wouldn't expect all the formatting to come through though.

Hope this helps,

- robin

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