Indesign Gurus! Is there a way for two separate documents to have different style sheets with the same names but different attributes? So that when I bring in tagged text, the styles "translate" into the new version?

May 6, 2011 3:15 PM

Indesign Gurus! Is there a way for two separate documents to have different style sheets with the same names but different attributes? So that when I bring in tagged text, the styles "translate" into the new version?

I am designing for print and ipad simultaneously and it would be a huge help if I could have an ipad style sheet where all the tags are the same but the attributes change. Thus when I bring in the text from the print version, the attributes automatically update to the ipad style sheet's attributes.

Any idears?

posted by Senor Cardgage to Media & Arts (2 answers total)

Best answer: Yes, as long as the two style sheets are named the exact same name in the different documents. When you copy and paste the print version document text box into the iPad version document it will apply what the style is in the iPad document. I just did a quick test (CS3) and that's how it worked for me.
posted by blacktshirtandjeans at 5:01 PM on May 6, 2011

Response by poster: Sonofa— BUT IVE BEEN DOING THAT

And it works now.

blacktshirtandjeans wields and awesome and remarkable voodoo. Hmmmm.

Thanks!
posted by Senor Cardgage at 5:06 PM on May 6, 2011