Adobe IMPORT EXPORT FILTERS README User manual

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Import & Export Filters ReadMe
April 2007
Adobe Systems Incorporated
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Overview
2. Enhancements & New Features
3. Plain Text
4. Microsoft Word, Excel & Rich Text Format (RTF) Import
5. Features Not Supported by the Word and RTF Filters
6. Features Not Supported by the Excel Filter
7. Additional Information
OVERVIEW
This document contains basic information on importing and exporting files to and from the
following applications or file formats:
• Plain text: import and export
• Rich Text Format (RTF): import and export
• Microsoft Word 97–98, 2000–2007, and Word X-2004 for Mac: import only
• Microsoft Excel 97–98, 2000–2007, and Excel X-2004 for Mac: import only
Please refer to the InCopy and InDesign Help documentation or User Guide for instructions on
importing and exporting files.
ENHANCEMENTS & NEW FEATURES
Below is a list of additional enhancements and new features added to Import Word/RTF/Excel
and Export RTF that are not already covered by the InDesign CS3 or InCopy CS3 User Guides.
Support for Live Bullets and Numbering in Word/RTF Import
Bullets and Numbering imported from Word and RTF files can now be converted to text or kept
as live bullets and numbers. Please note the following:
1. Each list in Word imports as a separate list in InDesign. ese lists will be named automatically
and have unique names during import, so that lists imported from dierent Word documents
do not clash. ere will be a prex “Word Imported list” for these auto-generated lists.
2. Imported List will not continue across stories or book.
3. List attributes of Paragraph will be applied as overrides over Paragraph Style. No new Para-
graph Style will be created.

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Support of DOCX and XLSX format.
Microsoft Office 2007 introduces new XML and ZIP-based file formats, called the Microsoft
Office Open XML Formats, as the default for Word 2007 and Excel 2007. The new XML default
extensions for Word and Excel 2007 are .docx and .xlsx, respectively. In order to read these new
formats, InDesign CS3 has two separate readers, one for Office 2003, Office 95-97 Word and Excel
documents and a second for Office 2007 Word and Excel documents. Please note:
1. For Office 2003 or below, table style formatting is imported in InDesign and imported tables
will have the same formatting as the Word file.
2. For Office 2007, default table style formatting does not get imported unless an override is
applied on the Word file.
PLAIN TEXT
Importing Plain Text
The Text import filter allows you to specify the character set and dictionary language to use when
importing a text file. This option is useful if the imported text includes character set-specific
special characters. If you do not specify the character set in which these special characters are
encoded, the characters may get mapped to other characters. Please note that if the imported text
file contains BOM (Byte Order Mask) of UTF-16, the character set and platform dropdown will
be grayed out.
Supported character sets are as follows:
• Unicode
• ShiftJIS 83pv
• ShiftJIS 90pv
• ShiftJIS 90ms
• GB2312
• GB18030
• KSC5601
• Chinese Big 5
• Macintosh CE
• Macintosh Cyrillic
• Macintosh Greek
• Windows Cyrillic
• Windows EE
• Windows Greek
• Windows CE
• Windows Turkish
• Macintosh Turkish
• Windows Baltic
• Macintosh Croatian
• Macintosh Icelandic
• Macintosh Roman

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• Macintosh Romanian
• Macintosh Ukrainian
• Macintosh CE
• Cyrillic (KOI8R)
• Cyrillic (KOI8U)
• Cyrillic (ISO)
• DOS Latin 2
• Greek (ISO)
• Central European (ISO)
• Turkish (ISO)
• Cyrillic (CP855)
Exporting Plain Text
The Text Export filter allows you to export text to “Text Only” format. The filter allows you to
specify the target platform (Macintosh or PC), and the target encoding:
• Unicode (UTF-16) encoding
• Default encoding
Default encoding translates the text from Unicode to platform multibyte encoding depending on
the font applied to the text.
Microsoft WORD, EXCEL & RICH TEXT FORMAT (RTF) IMPORT
The Word import filter allows you to import Word 97–98, Word 2000–2007, Word X-2004 for
Mac documents.
The Excel import filter allows you to import Excel 97–98, 2000–2007, and Excel X-2004 for Mac
documents.
The RTF import filter allows you to import RTF version 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, and RTF-J (Japanese)
files. If your files include unusual characters, and they become mishandled when imported, you
should save the file in Word format from the source application then re-import the file. The RTF
export filter allows you to export text to RTF version 1.6 and RTF-J.
Supported Word, Excel and RTF features that can be imported or exported are as follows:
Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
Font and Style Options
• Family ppp
• Size ppp
• Color ppp

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
• Case (all caps, small caps) ppp
• Style (bold, italic, bold italic) ppp
• Underline ppp
• Outline p p
• Strikethrough ppp
• Superscript and subscript ppp
• Japanese emphasis mark (as Kenten) - Japanese
versions only
p p
• Character spacing p p
• Position (baseline shift) p p
• Character scaling p p
Special Characters
• Em dashes and en dashes ppp
• Single and double quotation marks ppp
• Hyphens ppp
• White spaces ppp
• Ellipses ppp
• Copyright, trademark, and registered trademark
symbols
ppp
• Bullets characters and symbols ppp
Document Properties
• Paper size: width and height p
• Margins: top, bottom, left and right p
• Orientation: portrait and landscape p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
Paragraph Indents
• First ppp
• Left p p
• Right ppp
• Hanging (imported as left and first indents) p p
• Nested (imported as single indents of proportional
size)
p p
Paragraph Alignment
• General p
• Left ppp
• Right ppp
• Center ppp
• Justify ppp
• Force justify ppp
Paragraph Options
• Keep lines together p p
• Page break before p
• Keep with next p p
• Paragraph space before and after p p
• Leading p p
• Hyphenation (on/off) p p
Paragraph Line Rules
• Weight p p
• Color p p
• Style and type p p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
Paragraph Styles
• Name p p
• Based on p p
• Next p p
• Paragraph attributes p p
• Character attributes p p
• Tab specifications p p
Character Styles
• Name p p
• Based on p p
• Next p p
• Character attributes p p
Tab Attributes
• Left p p
• Right p p
• Center p p
• Decimal p p
• Period leader p p
• Hyphen leader p p
• Underscore leader p p
• Tab stops p p
Japanese Text Features
• Ruby ppp
• TCY p p
• Kenten p p
• Warichu p p
• Character alignment p p
• Kinsoku set p p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
Excel Data Types
• General p
• Number p
• Currency p
• Accounting p
• Date and time (Japanese format is supported) p
• Percentage p
• Fraction p
• Scientific p
• Text p
• Custom p
Graphics
• Graphics (BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF files
only)
ppp
Objects
• Word HTML & OLE control objects (imported as
images; not supported for RTF)
p
• Word Autoshapes with added text p
• Excel Charts (via copy-paste or drag and drop) p
Data
• Sorted p
• AutoFilter p
• Advanced filter p
• Forms p
• Subtotals p
• Pivot tables p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
• Tables p
• Group p
• Outline p
• Merged cells p
Table Formatting
• Repeated row headings on multiple pages p p
• Border and stroke width, color and style ppp
Row Formatting
• Height ppp
• Auto grow ppp
• Border and stroke width, color and style ppp
• Keep together p p
• Keep with next p p
Column Formatting
• Width ppp
• Border and stroke width, color and style ppp
Cell Formatting
• Background colors and fills ppp
• Border and stroke width, color and style ppp
• Height ppp
• Width ppp
• Horizontal merge ppp
• Vertical merge ppp
• Insets p p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
Cell Vertical Alignments
• Top ppp
• Bottom ppp
• Center ppp
• Justify ppp
Cell Text Orientation
• Horizontal ppp
• Vertical ppp
• Angle of rotation: 0˚, 90˚ and 270˚ only ppp
Sheets
• Renamed p
• Auto formatted tables p
• Hidden sheets, rows and columns p
Sheet Types
• Worksheet p
Other Text Specifications
• Extended ANSI characters (except Macintosh
extended ANSI characters)
ppp
• Extended ASCII characters ppp
• Unicode characters ppp
• Hyphens p p
• Manual kerning p
• Column breaks p
• Page breaks p
• Section breaks (imported as Page Breaks) p
• Index p p
• TOC entries (imported as regular text) p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
• AutoText (imported as regular text) p
• Symbols ppp
• Tracked text (For import, note that InCopy
Plug-ins must be installed in InDesign and Track
Changes checkbox must be selected in the Import
Options dialog box)
p
• Inserted OLE objects (for supported data types) p
• Drop caps p p
• Outlines (imported as regular text) p p
• Widow and orphan control (mapped using the
Keep Together setting)
p p
• Date and time (imported as regular text) p p
• Bullets and numbers (imported as text) p
• Captions (imported as text) p
• Insert file (text in the inserted file will be included,
but will not update if changes are made after
importing)
p
• Anchored Objects (exported as text boxes in RTF) p
• Text boxes and Text frames (contents are imported
as Anchored Objects)
p
• Text Wrap around Text Box,Text Frames and float-
ing graphics.
p p
• Hyperlinks ppp
• Word spacing and letter spacing attributes at the
paragraph level
p p
• Manual page breaks p p
• Footnotes p p

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Supported Feature Word &
RTF Import
Excel
Import
RTF
Export
Clipboard Support
• Cut/copy/paste plain text ppp
• Cut/copy/paste Rich Text Format (RTF) text* ppp
• Cut/copy/paste tables and table cells* ppp
* Ensure that the ‘All Information (Index Markers, Styles, Swatches, etc.)’ option in the Type panel
of the Preferences dialog is enabled to preserve formatting when pasting.
FEATURES NOT SUPPORTED BY THE WORD AND RTF FILTERS
The following features are not supported by the Word and RTF filters:
• No mapping in InDesign for Table/List Styles created in Microsoft Word.
• Any number formats supported by Microsoft Word but not InDesign CS3 will have InDesign’s
default numbering style applied.
• Imported Bullets will have a Unicode value for the first character of a bulleted string with the
remaining string being treated as text.
• Paragraph shading fill and patterns (style and color)
• Page borders
• Columns
• Headers and footers
• Endnote numbering formatting (imported as regular text at the end of the imported text)
• Table borders (formatting is preserved at cell level for visual similarity)
• Cross references (cross references to indexes are supported when exporting to RTF)
• Section styles
• Group properties
• HTML and OLE control objects in RTF files
• Hidden text (hidden text is not imported)
• Highlighting
• Document variables, comments and properties
• Bookmarks
• Drawing objects, other than Autoshapes with added text
• Annotation
• Bi-directional language support
• Form fields
• Page numbers
• Color in revision bars
• Objects from Equation Editor version 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0 (imported as images)

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• Macros
• Font kerning
• Document templates
• Word art (imported as images when importing RTF files)
• Word drawings
• Nested tables (for example, a table inside a table cell)
• File protection (password protected files are not imported)
• Hyperlinks applied to Autoshapes and Text Boxes
• Endnotes markers, which are instead converted to a default numbered sequence (e.g., 1, 2, 3.).
• Numbering sequence with outline numbering, in which the numbering is restarted
In addition to these unsupported features, please note the following differences in formatting and
styles after importing a Word document:
• Thick border lines in Word documents appear as thin border lines with wider spacing (as Word
assigns line weights to double border lines differently).
• Graphics inserted in to Word documents from the Insert Object or Paste Special menu
commands in Word will be imported if the particular graphics file format is supported. The
graphics will appear at the original position in the imported document.
• Table cell inset values are dierent for docx & doc les on InDesign import.
• When multilevel bulleted lists from Word are imported into InDesign, the list and level boxes
can be edited only by choosing the list type as numbers. Please note that upon import, the list
and level bond is broken and an InDesign bullet character is applied for the first character of a
bulleted string.
FEATURES NOT SUPPORTED BY THE EXCEL FILTER
The following features are not supported by the Excel filter:
• Microsoft Excel 2007 tables styles
• Drag and Drop of Charts from Excel 2007 to InDesign
• Document properties
• Notes
• Excel drawings
• Objects
• Outlines
• Patterns
• File protection (password protected files are not imported)
• Named styles
• Split screens
• Freeze panes
• Center across selection
• Unwrapped text (text is imported as wrapped by default; unwrapped text imports as wrapped)

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• Manual page breaks
• Horizontal fill
• Headers and footers
• Page numbers
• Inserted or Paste Special objects
• Macros
• Modules
• Dialogs
• Comments
• Text boxes
• Conditional formatting
• Shrink to fit
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information on general import issues and specific issues with applications or file for-
mats not covered in this document are included in the ReadMe documents located in the InDe-
sign CS3 and InCopy CS3 application folders.
For information on other issues with the software, visit the InDesign or InCopy Support section
of the Adobe Web site at http://www.adobe.com/support/products/indesign.html for InDesign or
http://www.adobe.com/support/products/incopy.html for InCopy.
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