We need a way to disable "smart" quotes when pasting text into XD text items

[Chris Ryland]

I don't know if this would be a preference (it is in InDesign) or another "Edit > Paste without Quote Conversion" alongside "Edit > Paste", but for some applications it's critical that the "smart quoting" conversion not be done on paste.

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for reaching out. It looks like you are talking about this feature:https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/14595153-maintain-...

If yes, I'd request you to, please upvote this request as this is the best way of communicating with the Engineering and Product Management teams regarding issues and suggestions so they can be implemented in future releases. 

If that's not what you are talking about, I'd request if you can explain a bit more about the workflow, we'll try our best to help you with it.

Regards

Rishabh

[Chris Ryland]

Thanks, no, this is not about styling, but about the auto-conversion of double straight "dumb" quotes to "smart" (typographer's) quotes. What is needed is some way to paste into a text area without that conversion.

[HARSHIKA_VERMA · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Sorry for the delay in response. I am afraid the option isn't available in XD as of now. I would suggest raising a new feature request here: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests and share the link here for tracking purpose.

Hope it helps.

Thanks,

Harshika

[kc! Bradshaw]

Until there is an actual preference to enable/disable, here is a fix:

Type or paste the quote into your text and when it automatically turns to a smart quote, press Command-Z (macOS) to "undo" and it will revert back to a non-smart quote.

[Chris Ryland · Accepted solution]

Thanks, and I learned you can turn this feature off in the macOS keyboard system preferences.

So it's not really anything XD is doing.

[kc! Bradshaw]

Beautiful! Thank you, Chris! Great find.

[HARSHIKA_VERMA]

Thanks for sharing your findings. This will definitely help our customer to fix the issue. Please feel free to reach out to us in the future for any query related to XD in the future.

We are here to help.

Thanks,

Harshika

[Brian27472827l5wr]

I am looking for a solution to this using InDesign on Windows. I tried the Ctl+Z method and it undoes the paste rather than undoing the smart quotes. I am copying and pasting technical information using single and double straight quote marks to denote feet and inches because the font I need to use does not include prime and double prime characters. 

I did find a sub-optimal solution, which is to open Preferences>Type and then uncheck "use typographer's quotes,"whenever I need to copy and paste text that includes foot and inch marks. This retains both straight and curved quotation marks when copying and pasting, but requires me to remember to type alt+[ or alt+shift+[ whenever I need to type actual quotation marks or apostrophes in new text.

Wondering if I need to submit a new feature request to ask for the ability to toggle the typographer's quotes preference separately for the clipboard vs. typing.