On 10/28/2009 10:34 AM, K.King wrote: > Copy and Paste into a text frame or story editor via clipboard from > another application and retain font attributes? > Okay I would like to do the above, is this possible ? > example if I have a PDF viewed in another application and if I > highlight a range of text, copy it and then paste into a text frame or > story editor only the text is seemingly brought across and all > font/character attributes (font names, size of, Bold, Italic, > Underline) seem to be ignored and lost. If there is quite a mixture of > fonts and styles (for whatever reasons) then obviously it takes quite > an amount of time and effort to re-apply the effects. > I have found a work around by copy and pasting into an ODT file (via > the clipboard and it does not appear to lose anything) and then using > the append text option on a text frame use the odt file. Except for ODT, you only have import of the text without styles. This isn't a workaround with ODT, it's a specific import plugin written to do this. It will not only import named Styles from openoffice.org, but also apply character style changes within a line.
HTML may apply some styles, but they are limited and may not be as expected. Greg
