Coonverting InDesign to Word

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    • #72252
      Rivkah Lewis
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      Hi All,

      I designed a book in English and Hebrew in tables. Many changes were made on the file itself and now the author wants it as a Word file so he can base his next book off of the most updated file. I exported the book as a PDF and then saved it as a Word file, but all of the Hebrew came out illegible. I tried copying and pasting the entire PDF into a Word doc and the Hebrew came out legible, but flipped. Meaning, if it was a single word, it was fine. but if it was supposed to say (transliterated) ani ohev l’kroh, it said l’kroh ani ohev. Each word the right direction, but the words in the opposite order they should be.

      I am working in CS6 with the InTools plugin.

      Any ideas?
      Thanks!

    • #72253

      Which version of Word?
      The Mac versions can’t do right-to-left, at least up to Word 2011.
      Does the Hebrew behave correctly if you copy it to a different text editor/word processor?

      Chris.

    • #72254
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      I tried Word and the setting called Word 97-2003.
      And I’m on a PC.

      If I copy if from InDesign to Word it comes out correctly, but that’s very time consuming – to select and copy every table. uness there’s a way of selecting all of them that I am not aware of.

    • #72255

      Did you try from InDesign, File> Export> Rich Text Format?
      And then open the RTF file in Word.
      It preserves tables, but I’m not sure about their direction.

    • #72275
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      Bingo!

      When I didn’t select any spread, it exported only the spread I had selected.
      When I selected all the pages, it began on the page that was visible on the screen and exported that through the end.
      And when I went to the first page (title page) and then selected all the pages, there was no RTF option on menu at all!

      But I think this will be good enough to start with.
      Thanks for all your help!

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