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Pages text in InDesign

Community Beginner ,
May 06, 2024 May 06, 2024

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Hello! I should layout a manual. It is a board game where there are boxes with examples, explanation text, captions. The texts are all ready in Pages. Is there a way to connect Pages texts to InDesign and make the text corrections on Word also update on the indd file?

 

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May 06, 2024 May 06, 2024

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InDesign cannot import  Pages text. You should be able to export a Word-formatted file in Pages which InDesign may be able to read.

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No and no. 

But you can export the Pages to PDF, and then open the PDF in the "BETA InDesign 19.4" in order to convert to a new ID file. This might not work wonderfully well. Word docs can link to ID but it is a one-way street going in. Also, you would have to take care to use paragraph and character style names in Word and ID that are identically-named. Further still, the Word paragraph styles should be independent styles; not styles based on Normal. Nor should ID styles ever be based on Basic Paragraph Styles. If you need 2-way text editing, you would adopt the use of InCopy for the linked text (instead of Word).

 

Another brand-new feature is the fact that ID docs can be stored in the Adobe cloud and other editors could open and edit the text in the layout. I have not used this new feature yet!

Mike Witherell

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But you can export the Pages to PDF, and then open the PDF in the "BETA InDesign 19.4" in order to convert to a new ID file.


By @Mike Witherell

 

That beta feature currently only supports PDF created with InDesign...

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In case I could also move the document to a google docs. The important thing is that the two programs start, updating the Docs corrections on indesign

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You can share text with a Google Doc via DocsFlow by Em Software: DocsFlow » Em Software

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