3 Replies Latest reply: Jul 30, 2014 3:49 PM by Amikoe RSS

    Retaining text-formatting from email message

    Amikoe Community Member
    Amikoe Jul 29, 2014 7:26 PM

      I'm a graphic designer. Most clients send me their formatted text (plain, B, I, BI) in a Word document which I will import to InDesign, allowing me to use their formatting to create the text in my layout.

       

      But some clients (sadly enough, those older ones) listen to my directions, say yes, then send me their text FORMATTED BUT IN THEIR EMAIL MESSAGE...

       

      My question is, how can I retain those Text formatting for usage in my page layout?

       

      Thanks...

        • 1. Re: Retaining text-formatting from email message
          Dov Isaacs Employee Hosts
          Dov Isaacs Jul 29, 2014 9:14 PM (in response to Amikoe)

          There is some hope, depending upon your e-mail client.

           

          If you use Outlook and assuming that they have formatted their e-mail as RTF or HTML, you can save the e-mail as HTML and then open the HTML in Microsoft Word and save that for placement into InDesign.

           

          For other clients, you can often successfully copy and paste from the e-mail client or web browser e-mail client into Word and then into InDesign.

           

                    - Dov

          • 2. Re: Retaining text-formatting from email message
            Amikoe Community Member
            Amikoe Jul 30, 2014 12:06 PM (in response to Dov Isaacs)

            Beautiful. I simply copied and pasted the text into a Word document, saved it, and then placed the text in an ID document, and it did retain all the formatting.

             

            ...Why didn't I think of it before?...

            • 3. Re: Retaining text-formatting from email message
              Amikoe Community Member
              Amikoe Jul 30, 2014 3:49 PM (in response to Amikoe)

              ...I was a bit hasty... I don't use Outlook, I use Apple's Mail program... I tested it creating MY OWN formatted text in Mail, and then did a copy-n-paste into a Word page... but when I found real text from clients' emails and copied their text, the formatting was ignored, it turned out plain.

               

              So I'm still wondering...