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jay fresno
Inspiring
March 17, 2007
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tagged text places as regular text

  • March 17, 2007
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I'm not a programmer, but have been tasked with placing tagged text into InDesign CS2 on Macintosh. However, the tagged text places as regular text with the <tags> showing. The name of the tagged text file is "brexportInDesign.txt" <br /><br />I read the support document "54161 How To: Generating a tagged text file from an application other than InDesign", but still wasn't able to make it work. <br /><br />A sample of the tagged text that the client provided is below. One problem obvious to me is that it should say <ASCII-MAC> instead of <ASCII-WIN>. But even when I change that, the text still places as regular text. <br /><br />If anyone has suggestions for making this tagged text place correctly into InDesign CS2 on Macintosh, I would be very grateful.<br /><br /><ASCII-WIN><br /><dps:Section=<cf:Arial>><br /><dps:Subsection=<cf:Arial>><br /><dps:ActDescription=<cf:Arial>><br /><dps:ActTitle=<cf:Arial>><br /><dps:CDescription=<cf:Arial>><br /><dps:Course=<cf:Arial>><br /><ParaStyle:Section>Aquatics<br /><ParaStyle:Subsection>Youth<br /><ParaStyle:ActTitle>Water Babies<br /><ParaStyle:ActDescription>AIM: Introduce the parent and childto a pool environment and develop comfort in the water. Educate the parent as to roles of instructor, parent and candidate. Develop water safety awareness.<br /><ParaStyle:CDescription><br /><ParaStyle:Course>51 M-Tu 8:00-8:45am 9/19-10/25 Milliken Mills C.C. $23/12 Mtgs.<br /><ParaStyle:Course>44 M 9:00-9:45am 10/24-11/28 Milliken Mills C.C. $23/6 Mtgs.<br /><ParaStyle:Section>Dancing<br /><ParaStyle:Subsection>Adult<br /><ParaStyle:ActTitle>Breakdancing<br /><ParaStyle:ActDescription>Learn to breakdance with the break dance gurus of the 80's. Bring your parachute pants and card board box, and of course don't forget the Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five tape!<br /><ParaStyle:CDescription><br /><ParaStyle:Course>54 M/W 7:00-9:00am 10/3-10/19 Milliken Mills C.C. $45/5 Mtgs.<br /><ParaStyle:ActTitle>Tap Dancing<br /><ParaStyle:ActDescription><br /><ParaStyle:CDescription>Senior Rate<br /><ParaStyle:Course>52 M 9:00-10:00am 10/3-11/21 Milliken Mills C.C. $10/8 Mtgs.
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_Melissa_Rice_
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September 12, 2007
The Adobe article on generating tagged ascii also mentions that your CR/LF has to be consistent with the platform. Windows and Mac use different characters to signal a line end. <br /><br />Question 1: if the tagged ascii was generated on a Windows platform and says <ASCII-WIN> at the top and has CR/LF (hex 0D 0A) for end-of-line characters then will InDesign on a Mac be able to read it? Don't know. Does anyone know?<br /><br />Question 2: if the tagged ascii was generated on a Windows platform and says <ASCII-WIN> at the top and has CR/LF (hex 0D 0A) for end-of-line characters and you change <ASCII-WIN> to <ASCII-MAC> then can InDesign on a Mac read it? No. Because the end-of-line is not consistent with a Mac (which uses CR and no LF). In that case, see if you have a text editor which will change CR/LF to just CR. If you have a hex editor you can open the file and see if you see a lot of 0D0A which would mean Windows end-of-line.<br /><br />Good luck.
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_Dan_Herda_
Participant
August 6, 2007
Hi Jay, I am having the same issues. Have you had any response, or did you find a solution?
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jay fresnoAuthor
Inspiring
March 17, 2007
Adding one more thing to my message -- the tagged text places correctly if I place it into InDesign CS2 on Windows. It just doesn't place correctly into InDesign CS2 on Macintosh.
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