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Text Formats

When exporting text you'll encounter a pop-up menu of export formats which is somewhat different than what you'd see in XPress. Many of the formats export entire pages instead of just text, so choose carefully (see Chapter 11). The formats that only export text are listed below.

Text Only

Choose this option if you need the text to be usable on any computer operating system and any software. The Text Only option extracts the text and places it in a standard file format that virtually any text editing software will be able to read. Text Only removes any and all formatting you've applied to text and only exports the characters.

The Text Only option allows you to apply the characteristics of the computer platform where the files will be used, regardless of which computer operating system on which you are using InDesign (see Figure 59-2). By selecting Macintosh or PC, the text is structured so that characters will display and print properly when opened on the computer type you select. The Encoding option allows you to specify Unicode if necessary to preserve special characters.

Rich Text Format

The Rich Text Format (RTF) saves your text with most of its formatting (including styles, fonts, and so on). You should use RTF if you're going to open the exported text file with Microsoft Word or place the text in an application that recognizes this file format, such as PageMaker or QuarkXPress for Windows. You can use this option to extract your text to a word processing program for further editing and then re-import the text back into InDesign to complete a page layout (but you may lose some InDesign-specific formatting in the process).

Adobe InDesign Tagged Text

The most robust text-export format is InDesign Tagged Text, which is similar to XPress Tags. Tagged text saves all your text formatting, but other programs can't read it. We cover this option in more detail in the next chapter.