Deborah Woehr

Design Woes

I’ve been reading this book on book design to learn the required formatting for book printing. The required alignment is full justification. I did not know this when I formatted the ebook for the anthology.

To make a long story short, my word processor (They all suck.) and InDesign are waging war over code formatting. See what I mean by clicking here. When I import the file from Word (or in my case, Nisus Writer) into InDesign and use full justification, the paragraphs get littered with spaces. Now, it is my job to figure out how to “clean up” the code inside the word processor.

I’m tempted to leave the justification just the way it is inside the anthology ebook, but the results will be less than professional. Anyone have any suggestions or opinions?

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6 Responses to “Design Woes”

Benjamin Solah on 15 Mar 2006 at 9:05 pm #

Can you align and format in InDesign? If so, you could copy the text to a plain text editor like Notepad.

deborah.woehr on 15 Mar 2006 at 9:36 pm #

Yes, you can. I’ll try your suggestion and see if it works. Thanks!

Fredcq on 16 Mar 2006 at 5:41 am #

I wish that I could help but I have little experience in this but I understand your frustration. I have working with similar programs and I know how frustrating they can be.

deborah.woehr on 16 Mar 2006 at 6:11 am #

Thanks, Fred. I tried using the plain text editor and a web text editor, but nothing worked. I’m going to have to go to the Adobe website to see if I can find an answer to this.