Convert InDesign doc to Pages doc

I may be wrong but my guess was that the OP wanted to keep the layout.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 10 juillet 2008 11:10:55)

To bring content from one application into another application, Olav Martin Kvern who was technical writer on Aldus PageMaker and is now ditto on Adobe InDesign recommends not using the clipboard but using the Export command.

Place your cursor in the column in your InDesign layout, select File > Export, and pick -

Text Only (UTF 16 plain text)

Tagged Text (similar to other manual markup models as in QuarkXPress)

Rich Text Format (carries formatting forward without manual markup definitions and tagging)

XML (if you have a document type definition)

The preference is Text Only as you get no surprises, just the UTF 16 plain text. UTF 16 is Unicode Transformation Format for 16-bit which is one of the standard representations of ISO-IEC 10646 and its commercial counterpart, Unicode.

hh

I may be wrong but my guess was that the OP wanted to keep the layout.

Oh, if so then the simplest solution is to place PDF pages in Pages (which was what you said, if memory serves). This will preserve the appearance of composition and illustration.

However, be aware that if in Adobe InDesign you code text and convert to composed type that is searchable (with an Adobe Original in the Adobe OpenType Library), and if you save that into a PDF within which the composed type is still searchable, then if you place that PDF as a graphic and save out a PDF with the first PDF as nested object, then the composed type in the first PDF will not be searchable. This is a published bug in InDesign 2, and an unpublished bug in InDesign 3 as the problem was hidden. Placing PDF in an application and saving out another PDF within which the first PDF is nested should be tested. Whereas embedding of an ICC file is not affected by nesting of PDF within PDF, embedding of an SFNT file (TrueType, OpenType) is affected.

If the aim is to print, then no problem. If the aim is anything other than print, then best aware that it is up to oneself to test that the process produces the expected result.

hh

Try copy/paste.

You may also save as PDF and insert the PDF in Pages documents.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 10 juillet 2008 09:07:33)