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Import from Buzzword

May 16, 2012 9:06 AM

Is there an option "Place from Buzzword" in InDesign CS6? That option was avaialbe in CS5.5, but is not longer in the FIle menu in CS6. How are we supposed to import docs from Acrobat.com, specifically Buzzword Docs? I don't really want to take the time to export out as a PDF when it was easier to import from Buzzword and have the file link to my Acrobat.com account.

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  • Steve Werner
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    1. Steve Werner,
    May 16, 2012 9:43 AM   in reply to JenAnn
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    Truthfully, not many people have been using this feature. It has been dropped from InDesign CS6.

     

    I just tested an old Buzzword document on Acrobat.com. While the only export option is to export to Adobe PDF, you can choose Select All in your document, then Edit > Copy. I pasted into a TextEdit file (or you could choose another text editor or word processor) and it had copied in what appears to be Rich Text Format including styling. You could then place that in InDesign CS6.

     
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    2. JenAnn,
    May 16, 2012 10:29 AM   in reply to Steve Werner
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    So any solution as to how I import docs from Acrobat.com<http://Acrobat.com>?

     

    Jeni

     
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    3. JenAnn,
    May 16, 2012 10:33 AM   in reply to Steve Werner
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    What I liked about that feature was that it was linked back to the doc in Acrobat. So if I had a group of people working on the same doc, it would tell me in Indesign when the file needed to be updated and all I had to do was update link and that was it. I didn't have to place the doc again.

     
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    May 16, 2012 10:34 AM   in reply to JenAnn
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    Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. :-(

     
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    May 18, 2012 7:47 AM   in reply to Steve Werner
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    Of course no one used it --- it didn't support styles!

     

    If it had, we'd've built a work-flow around it, but it didn't so we've been forced to ``roll our own''.

     
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  • Steve Werner
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    6. Steve Werner,
    May 18, 2012 7:50 AM   in reply to IamWilliam
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    I totally agree. Adobe definitely flubbed it.

     
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    May 18, 2012 10:10 AM   in reply to IamWilliam
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    When you imported the file you could select which styles you wanted. It was a pain but it worked.

     
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    8. IamWilliam,
    May 18, 2012 10:55 AM   in reply to JenAnn
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    Not good enough. W/o robust style support it devolves to an all-too-typical work-flow:

     

    • apply local formatting ``finger-painting'' the document
    • import text, convert relevant formatting to character / paragraph styles, discard superfluous formatting
    • mark up text w/ necessary local formatting specific to current pagination

     

    If Buzzword had made it possible to define a set of character and paragraph styles, then have the user _only_ able to use those and _no_ local formatting, it would've been an excellent solution.

     
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