Open IDML file in InDesign

[Miriam348]

Hello,

I was supposed to translate an INDD file from InDesign in SDL Trados, so this file had to be saved as IDML file.

Now that the translation is complete, I need to open this IDML file back in InDesign (i.e. import it). It is a catalogue that should be printed next.

How should I do it, please?

I have no experience with InDesign.

Thank you very much.

[Miriam348]

Thank you all for your replies, but I would like to ask a quite urgent question now: I have the 7-day free trial version of InDesign and when I try to set English as the language of the User Dictionary for hyphenating words, the setting always returns to the default English. I right click on a word in the text, then Spelling → User Dictionary → Language: Slovak → Add → Done. The point is that I need the German client to get the text with split Slovak words right - so that e.g. he doesn't have German as the default language there, as a result of which the Slovak words could possibly be split incorrectly and the Slovak language could not be set for hyphenation. Could such a thing be a real threat, please? How could this be prevented or set up correctly?

Thank you

[Joel Cherney · Accepted solution]

The first thing to do is to ensure that you are marking text as English or German or Slovak correctly. The User Dictionary settings aren't the right place. Here's where you would select it if you were just taking a paragraph and marking it as German (two different locations, same setting):

(I left Slovak out only because it was so far down the list that the animation would have been unnecessarily tall.  But it's in the list.)

Once you've marked text as German (or Slovak) then the spellcheck and hyphenation settings should work. This isn't the best way to do it, of course, but we can't tell if your client's designer made paragraph and character styles correctly. If they did, you should be able to just edit the paragraph styles:

[Miriam348]

Hello, 

I am currently reading this post https://helpx.adobe.com/sk/indesign/using/text-composition.html#hyphenate_text , and I cannot seem to find the mentioned Hyphenation settings in my free-trial InDesign version: 

I mean, I checked the "Hyphenate" box in the Paragraph menu, but I do not see the Hyphenation settings anywhere: 

The three dots on the right would just show fewer options.

Because I need to align/justify these rows as all other rows in the paragraphs, but I do not know how yet...:

Thank you for your advice.

[Willi Adelberger]

Work through your paragraph style settings and you will find everything. 

[Miriam348]

I tried increasing and decreasing indents, justifying and aligning the individual rows, but it moved only the whole paragraph, not the indent in the specific row.

[Miriam348]

I fortunately managed it thanks to a numbering help article.

[Miriam348]

Hello, Mr. Cherney,

how can I please adjust the distance between the rows in paragraphs 2 and 3, so that it is the same as in paragraph 1? I tried various options in the Paragraph menu, but it did not work.

Thank you for your advice.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Miriam348

You need to set exactly the same LEADING. 

[Miriam348]

I set the same leading, but the distance between the rows is still different.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Miriam348

Same or different TextFrames? 

Then there is Align To Baseline grid - in ParaStyle definition and for each TextFrame:

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/using/aligning-text.html#:~:text=Select%20the%20paragraphs%20you....

[Miriam348]

Same text frame. Thank you, but I managed it thanks to Object → Text Frame Options → Align → Top.

I would also like to ask if the leading is ok in this picture: I tried setting the same leading for the 3rd and 4th line (13 pt, same text frame), but they did not look the same after that. So then I set 8 pt for the 4th line, and it looks the same now. My question is if the leading will really look the same with these 2 different settings in the final file in RGB and the print file in CMYK.    

Thank you

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Same text frame. Thank you, but I managed it thanks to Object → Text Frame Options → Align → Top.

By Miriam348

So you had it set to Justified? 

I would also like to ask if the leading is ok in this picture: I tried setting the same leading for the 3rd and 4th line (13 pt, same text frame), but they did not look the same after that. So then I set 8 pt for the 4th line, and it looks the same now. My question is if the leading will really look the same with these 2 different settings in the final file in RGB and the print file in CMYK.    

Thank you

By Miriam348

Leading should be set "globally" for the whole Paragraph - and you should use ParaStyles - not "playing" with each individual line of text. 

[Miriam348]

1. Yes, Vertical justification → Align → Top

2. At the end of the 3rd line, I pressed Enter, so that the words in the lines are distributed more evenly.

I have not worked with Parastyles yet, will look them up and try.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

I have not worked with Parastyles yet, will look them up and try.

By Miriam348

Working with / using Paragraph Styles is a MUST. 

Otherwise, you are dead in the water. 

Then there are Character, Object, Table and Cell Styles.

[Willi Adelberger]

Could it be, that each line is separated by a return? This would make each line its own paragraph. Remove those returns and replace them with a space. 
I think you problem with the wrong intents is caused by the same false handling with returns instead of using spaces. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Willi Adelberger

You are right, there is a return after 3rd line.

[Miriam348]

So since it did not work otherwise, and I had to set both 8 pt and 13 pt (leading) because of the "Enter" pressed after the 3rd line (so that the last word does not protrude), will the lines look the same in the print version as well, please?  

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Miriam348

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get - when you export as PDF.