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November 26, 2019
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Re: Reference for Adobe InDesign CC 2018 Tagged Text?

  • November 26, 2019
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Where is place>text import options>Indesign tagged text? Can export Indesign tagged text with ID 12 & 14 but cannot place, reading tags.

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    Correct answer Frans v.d. Geest

    Tagged text is (should be) just plain (ASCII) text with tags in brackets. InDesign recognizes it as such, there are no options at Placing ;-:

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    November 29, 2019

    Hi Bud,

    hm. Strange. Could be perhaps a text encoding issue. But that would not explain why a drag & drop is working and command Place… is not. What is the source of the tagged text file? An InDesign version on a Mac and you are on Windows?

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    November 29, 2019

    Hi budalitho,

    so your InDesign Import will not recognize a *.txt file?

     

    What's your operating system?

    Are you seeing file suffixes in your file sytem?

    Be it Finder ( Mac OS X ) or Explorer ( Windows ).

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

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    budatlithoAuthor
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    November 29, 2019

    Uwe:

    Well, I'm at a loss... the OS is Win10, InDesign 2017. Unless I'm completely out-to-lunch, with CS5.5, you had to select "InDesign Tagged Text" at the place>Show import options dialogue. 

    I tried drag-and-drop and the tags were recognized.  Now, when I Place>select file>text.txt the tags ARE recognized. I used the same file I tried before with no success- text was imported as plain text, with tags nor recognized as such.

    I have no clue why the process now works without having to specify ID tagged text.

     

    Thanks for your help.

     

    Bud

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    budatlithoAuthor
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    November 29, 2019

    Drag and drop does, indeed, work.  Thanks for the answer.

    Frans v.d. Geest
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    Frans v.d. GeestCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    November 27, 2019

    Tagged text is (should be) just plain (ASCII) text with tags in brackets. InDesign recognizes it as such, there are no options at Placing ;-:

    Matthias Paul Seidel
    Matthias Paul Seidel
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    January 18, 2023

    Yes, you're right, but the question was "Reference for Adobe InDesign CC 2018 Tagged Text", right? And I have to say, no, I have not found an official description of TaggedText from Adobe. In the past they had on old description here for CS5 here:

     

    https://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/TaggedText/indesign_cs5_TaggedText.pdf

     

    But this file is not available anymore (I've attached this file here). And there is an even older description of TaggedText for CS4 ( 😞 ). But this is not an official Adobe page: 

     

    https://acdowd-designs.com/sfsu_access/indesign_cs4_taggedtext.pdf 

     

    Since TaggedText has hardly changed (or not at all, but we can't know that exactly), this description may help too.

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    Manan JoshiCommunity Expert
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    November 27, 2019

    I don't understand what is the issue, if you can't find the option to place the tagged text, did you try dragging and dropping the tagged text file into InDesign document? What happens if you try this?

     

    -Manan

    -Manan
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