Italics dropping out of Word import

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    • #71113
      David Peattie
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      [Using CS6 on Mac OS 10. 9.4]

      I’m having a problem where the italics are dropping out when I import a Word file. The import option selected is “Preserve Styles and Formatting for Text…”

      Usually I work with tagged text files (since I often find Word file imports can be wonky), but one client has a lot of Asian character text, so I exported an rtf file so they’d have the styles set up. She diligently set up text files using the right styles, and the Asian characters seem to come through fine, but throughout the book, all the italics have dropped out.

      Any thoughts?

      My first guess that something other than straightforward “italic” formatting was used, but that’s not the case.

    • #71115

      I’m the same as you, i.e., working with tagged text files. I HATE importing word files.

      A few thoughts:

      1) They used the actual italic font and not the fake italic (i.e., the palette)

      2) If you are using document font (instead of Suitcase or some other font management program), maybe the italic font is not in the document font folder?

      3) Did you try to resave as a Word file? I know from experience that RTF files are wacky as heck. In fact, I had an issue back in CS5.5. We would tag a file using XTags, import into Indesign, and then back it out as a RTF file for the designers. For some reason the RTF file would override ID’s justification and hyphenation.

      I don’t trust RTF files at all. Too many issues.

    • #71120
      Tom Venetia
      Member

      Does this only happens with the Asian font? If so, does you have the italic font set installed? I do not know how it is on a Mac but on a PC/Windows you must install the italic set to get true italics.

    • #71125
      David Peattie
      Participant

      It’s still problematic, but converting the Word .docx file to .doc seems to help. The italics came in as a GaramondPremPro italic rather than as Garamond Premier Pro, so I can now swap them out.

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