Does anyone know a good way to export text to Word while maintaining Bolds and Italics?
I know the obvious question is WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO DO THAT? But I think it makes sense.
Here is the work flow that I have been asked to help improve: Designer gets original mechanical from many sources (other imprints, other publishers, etc.) Designer creates new mechanical for a variety of new formats that will use cut down version of text in orig. mech. Designer cuts and pastes text out of original InDesign (or Quark) into Outlook, thus losing all styling. Editors make changes and email text back, with styles applied, but styles are lost once the designer cuts and pastes back into InDD. Designer reapplies bold and italics based visually on the email. Then they move to a series of paper corrections where the designer is responsible for entering text changes.
InCopy is an obvious option, but that requires OT fonts, since we're in a mixed PC/Mac environment. There are just far too many in use for this to be a viable option.
I'd like the editors to work in Word, with styles and the designer to keep the Word file linked, so that the editors are responsible for entering the text corrections. Nether the original designer nor the new one is using any styles!!! But this will change at least for the new mechanical. So the first step would be to mark the bold and italics before exporting.
When I export to RTF, too much formatting information is retained. When I export to text, everything is lost. What I'd really like is the equivalent of the shell CSS declaration that you can get when exporting to epub.
I tried Dave Saunder's script, PreseveLocalFormatting, but it doesn't work well the italic used is something like "Condensed No. 18 Oblique." I can't possibly amend the script to accommodate all the possibilities.
I've seen PDF exports suggested, but I got the entire mechanical recreated in word. It can get very sloppy.
I've used a work around for excel and Design Merge, where I have the editors surround text that should be italicized with "++" and then use GREP to style the text inbetween the markers as itals. So, if I could script to surround bold and ital with markers before a text export, that would work too.
Thanks for reading. I know it's long-winded. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.
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