Cyrillic not coming through from MS Word to InDesign

[Marco_A_SantaMaria@adobeforums.com]

Are you using exactly the same font in both applicaitons? It might be that the font you are using in InDesign does not support the Ccyrillic characters you need. Try selecting Myriad Pro, or other OpenType with extended set.

[Robert_Ehle@adobeforums.com]

Yes, Marco. This was the first thing we checked. The ID doc does use a complete OpenType character set.

[Marco_A_SantaMaria@adobeforums.com]

OK, Then check if you mihgt ahve a duplicate set of Time New Roman that might be conflicting with your extended set.

P.S. Just to make sure, Word does show all the glyphs you need in your text, correct?

[Robert_Ehle@adobeforums.com]

The problem, I realize now, is in the text-only save, where everything's converted to ASCII. That's where we lose the extended character set. The solution would seem to be to skip the ASCII save, except that we came up with that in order to hold on to in-paragraph character formatting. When we move from Word directly to ID, things like book titles in paragraphs, with italics, lose those italics unless they have actual character styles.

So for the time being, I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.

[Diane_King@adobeforums.com]

Robert,

You have an interesting workflow. I would just place the Word document and do find/replaces to change local formating to character styles and then find/replace to set the paragraph and character styles. I'm not saying your workflow is necessarily wrong, but it seems needlessly complicated. Word formatting imports into ID fairly cleanly in my experience even when the styles are all messed up.

Also, which version of Word are you using? The latest versions for Windows have some really great style features that help you clean up formatting--that, I might say, leave ID in the dust. For example, with styles and formatting turned on in Word 2003, you can click into an italicized word inside a non-italicized paragraph and do a select all from the Styles pallet and it will independently select each instance of that formatting in that type of paragraph throughout the entire document and allow you to create and apply a character style with an easy couple of clicks of your mouse. The styles pallet will also show you when paragraph styles have non-styled formatting applied by listing the instances as "[paragraph style] + italic" or some similar thing. You can then select that instance from the list, do a select all from the pallet and change them all to the proper character style.

[Robert_Ehle@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the response, Diane.

I think our ASCII workflow may have historical reasons more than currently logical ones, but I do know that whenever I've suggested moving to a Word-direct-to-InDesign workflow, the answer has been something along the lines of Word's . . . for want of a better word . . . opacity. I can speak only in the most general terms, since I haven't had to deal with the problem directly for years. But I'll pass this on to our typesetter and see what he says.

Rob