Custom Placeholder text

Question

Hello all,

I am using a custom placeholder text file which I want to use instead of Lorem Ipsum. I have couple of paragraphs on it and I have pasted the file in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe InDesign 2023

The file is in plain text format and I have tried all the possible options of UTF-8, UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE and other options available in Notepad for saving it. For some reason only few lines are appearing from the file and that same line is getting repeated.

I have attached a screenshot and also the placeholder text file.

Any suggestion would be very helpful.

Thanks

Steve Werner · Accepted Answer

That is the only method of using custom placeholder text that I have ever heard that would work in InDesign. Perhaps someone can suggest a trick using scripting (but I'm not a scripter).

Steve Werner · Answer

Here's a video which shows you how to use custom placeholder text in InDesign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQqM7eXaKGo

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