Importing Chinese Text into InDesign

Here you are in a forum dedicated to Apple's Pages,
not to Adobe's inDesign.

At least for the first part of your question, it would be more logical to ask on an Adobe site.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 1 avril 2010 16:51:04

1) How do I input the text into InDesign? Is it as simple as cut and paste or do I need to change some settings on my Mac first to recognize the Chinese characters?

Copy/paste should work fine. If it doesn't work right, you need to ask on the Adobe forums.

2) Is there a specific kind of document file the text needs to be in first? i.e. .doc file or something else

Certainly not if you are copy/pasting -- you just need to be able to see your text.

There is also a special site for Chinese stuff, including details on how you input with the keyboard, etc.

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/

1) How do I input the text into InDesign? Is it as simple as cut and paste or do I need to change some settings on my Mac first to recognize the Chinese characters?
2) Is there a specific kind of document file the text needs to be in first? i.e. .doc file or something else

Adobe InDesign what version?

Version 3 introduced improved CJK, including inline input. It should work if you do as you would do in any transfer of plain text: copy from your originating application e.g. Apple Pages, clean (scrub, strip) the formatting by copying into a plain text editor and choosing Plain Text e.g. in Apple TextEdit, copy into the formatting application e.g. Adobe InDesign.

I reviewed Adobe InDesign 1.5 and was beta tester for Adobe InDesign 2 and 3.

/hh