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Google docs to indesign6/13/2023 ![]() ![]() A better way would have been to use InDesign’s ability to work with XML in templates. That really enabled a detailed comparison of the Google document and the InDesign document. We then used the ‘diff’ command line tool to look at the differences. These have slightly different formatting, but with a bit of scripting can be made to look sufficiently similar. One question is this: how do you check the InDesign version against the Google document? We used the text export from Google documents, and the pdftotext tool to create text files. In practice, this doesn’t quite work, because inevitably new suggestions and corrections arise once one has the finished PDF. Ideally, one would finish the text first, and then do the design. We worked with a designer, who used InDesign, while our text was in Google Documents. We’ve recently completed the OER Guidance for Schools. This post originally appeared here on 20th October 2014 under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. ![]()
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