Australopithicus Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Dear Serif, I find myself facing a situation where a series of client changes and updated requirements to an already designed a4 book, suggest I would be better off starting the 256 page book again from the beginning rather than fixing existing pages one at a time manually. I cannot work from original Word doc as far too many text changes have been made to the Apub file. I must work with text in the Apub file. However, once text is specified in Apub it can only be imported into another Apub doc in its final saved design format. I wish to strip out those format specs. column and border sizes and hard line returns, and finish up with text that I can re-import into a new Apub doc with new column specs, letting text flow throughout document as normal with imported text. If I could save the original Apub doc in .rtf that would possibly solve the problem but .rtf is not offered as an Apub file format. My only choice currently, is to duplicate my Apub file and manually revise each one of 256 pages. This is a huge time waster. I ask you to consider introducing a file format which is text only, so any Apub doc text can be reused easily in a different format in any new Apub document. This would add immense flexibility to Apub. The same text only setting could be easily imported in to each of several entirely different formatted documents. A huge saving of time and a great convenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tudor Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Can’t you just copy and paste the text into a text editor and then save as RTF? I did this recently when I had to redo a brochure in InDesign (client demand). To my surprise, the text copied from Publisher maintained all the styles when pasted in InDesign. Saved me a lot of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Australopithicus Posted August 11, 2022 Author Share Posted August 11, 2022 Sounds interesting. I was using Import and Export procedures, I had not considered drag and drop/copy and paste. Which text editor did you use Tudor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tudor Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Any text editor that can save in the file format you need will be okay. Word, TextEdit etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Australopithicus Posted August 12, 2022 Author Share Posted August 12, 2022 Thanks Tudor. Actually I find the whole process very simple using cut and paste. I tried editors many of which favoured HTML code formatting and finally found Text Edit in mac accepted pasting text from Affinity cut and paste. The next logical step was to simply create a new Affinity file then cut and paste from old file into new file. Funny how reliance on apps tends to blind one to the obvious! Thank you to all respondents, Cheers all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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