soft returns in AI / ID?
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- inkpink
all the soft returns (linebreaks) are getting stripped out when I paste my text from Apple Pages into Illustrator and/or InDesign.
I don't remember having this problem before. Not sure if it's a Pages thing. Also tried an RTF export placed into ID but same problem.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? Any fixes?
- bigtrickagain0
generic advice to be sure, but try pasting into another app first, then copying again and pasting into illy/indesign?
- inkpink0
turns out i'd encountered a similar problem before and asked a similar question here on qbn.
no solution was found.
other than find/replace all the linebreaks to an unused specialty character in source and then replacing back to linebreaks in AI or ID.
it sounds as though linebreaks are not characters or formatting that copy over.... .doc .pages .rtf it don't matter.
- royal pain in the ass, so please let me know if anyone has more infoinkpink
- johndiggity0
did you try placing the text from the pages file instead of pasting?
- inkpink0
my MS Office is fcked - won't launch - but if anyone knows that linebreaks do infact copy or place with a native Word file to InDesign please let me know and I'll work on a reinstall.
- monospaced0
I'm pretty sure you have an option to past with formatting or without. I'll get back to you after I investigate.