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Reference for Adobe InDesign CC 2018 Tagged Text?

  • November 14, 2018
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Hi:

I was wondering where I could get the official reference for Adobe InDesign Tagged Text. (I've used the Search mechanism, google, etc., but have had no luck.) A PDF would of course be wonderful! Does anyone have a link to it?

Thanks!

    Correct answer Om Nath Jha

    Hi all,

    You can import and export Tagged Text from InDesign. We've not changed anything recently related to this. Here's a PDF file you can check for more details about InDesign Tagged Text: PDF

    Thanks,

    Om

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    Srishti Bali
    Srishti Bali
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    November 16, 2018

    Hi there,

    Please check out this help article: Tag content for XML in InDesign.

    Hope it helps!

    Regards,

    Srishti

    Jongware
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    JongwareCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 16, 2018

    Is this an official statement, and InDesign will not support importing and exporting tagged text anymore?

    "Tagged text" is not XML. Its structure may look like XML, but only (very) superficially, and to the uninitiated only.

    The new-and-improved IDML import/export is actually XML, but for simple text import and export, using IDML is massive overkill. Creating and then importing tagged text – in various ways, and with various workflows – has been a staple of my workflow for as long as I have used InDesign, even before IDML. It is ideal for quickly adding formatting to large amounts of plain text, and even though it does not support (not, or badly, or too complicted at least) stuff like bookmarks and hyperlinks, it shines with all plain text format.

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