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Question

Has anyone tried this companies product out?
Pasting text from Word...maintaining Italics and Bold only (no other styles from Word needed or wanted!).
On top of that need, I need the abiity for it to apply an entirely different font for an italics. Because my body text is "Meta Normal". It comes with an italic style but the bold is a whole other font, "Meta Bold".
To see what I already discussed regarding another plug-in I hoped would do this but stopped short of my second need:
Dominic Hurley, "Seeking Reviews on the SmartPaste Plug-in from Knowbody..." #23, 12 May 2008 6:58 pm

Answer 1

Hi Dan,
Er, why not try the script before you start spending money? All it takes to try it is copy, paste, save. Here's a CS2 version and instructions:
--PasteAsPlainText
--Strips the formatting from the text on the Clipboard
--and inserts it at the current insertion point. Does nothing
--if an insertion point is not active in text.
set myString to the clipboard as string
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
set mySelection to selection
if (count mySelection) > 0 then
if class of item 1 of selection is insertion point then
set contents of item 1 of selection to myString
end if
end if
end tell
Start the Apple Script Editor (it's installed with the Mac OS--you'll find it in the AppleScript folder inside the Applications folder).
Paste the above script into the Script Editor.
Choose Save As from the File menu. Choose Text from the File Format menu in the Save As dialog box. Give the script the name "PasteAsPlainText.applescript".
Save the file to the Scripts folder inside the Presets folder in your InDesign CS2 folder (which is inside the Applications folder).
The script will now appear in the Scripts folder in InDesign (to display the Scripts folder, choose Scripts from the Automation submenu of the Window menu).
When you want to run the script, click the Type tool in text where you want to insert the contents of the clipboard, then double-click the script in the Scripts panel.
That's all there is to it--no knowledge of scripting required.
Thanks,
Ole