Publication Settings	Supported?	Notes
Double-Sided, Facing Pages	Yes (Limited)	InDesign converts double-sided documents that do not contain facing pages into single-page spreads. When both Double-Sided and Facing Pages are selected, files are converted into facing-page spreads.
Preferences	Supported?	Notes
Snap to Constraints	No	--
Save Option (Smaller, Faster)	No	--
Horizontal and Vertical Nudge	No	--
Greek Text Below	No	--
PostScript Printing-Memory Freed for Graphics	No	--
Display PPD Name	No	--
Turn Pages When Autoflowing	No	--
TrueType Display (Preserve Line Spacing/ Character Shape)	No	--
Trapping Preferences	Yes	When Auto-overprint black strokes or fills (or both) are selected in the Trapping Preferences dialog box in PageMaker, the setting carries over to InDesign. However, Overprint Stroke or Overprint Fill is deselected in the Attributes palette.
Page Layout Features	Supported?	Notes
Booklists and Booked Publications	No	InDesign ignores Booklists when opening PageMaker publications. If you want to open all the publications on a Booklist together, run the Build Booklet plug-in in PageMaker with a layout of None selected. The booked publications are combined into one. Text blocks and frames are no longer threaded, however.
Index	Yes (Limited)	Index entries from a PageMaker publication appear in the InDesign Index palette. Text with cross-references that use the See Herein or See Also Herein option are mapped as See or See Also.
Items on the Pasteboard	Yes (Limited)	All items on the PageMaker pasteboard appear on the pasteboard of the first spread in the InDesign document. InDesign uses a different pasteboard for each spread.
Layers	Yes	To maintain the order of overlapping items, InDesign creates two layers when converting a PageMaker publication: Default and Master Default. Master Default contains the Master page items.
Master Page Items	Yes	Master pages in PageMaker convert to master pages in InDesign and retain all objects including page numbering and guides. Some layers could be added to the document. To retain the stacking order established in the original PageMaker publication. (See the Layers listing in this section.)
Non-Printing Objects	Yes	All objects designated in PageMaker as Non-Printing are converted with Non-Printing selected in the InDesign Attribute palette.
Ruler Guides	Yes	--
Table of Contents	Yes	Table of Contents text converts as a Table of Contents, with PageMaker TOC Style available in the style pop-up menu in the InDesign TOC dialog box.
Text Attributes	Supported?	Notes
Text Composition	Yes (Limited)	InDesign assigns its Paragraph composer to all paragraphs. However, you can assign the single-line composer to one or more paragraphs. In InDesign, the single-line text composition engine chooses line breaks more similarly to the PageMaker composition engine, but text could still reflow.
Top of Caps and Proportional Leading	Yes (Limited)	InDesign uses only Baseline leading. Proportional and Top of Caps leading in PageMaker convert to Baseline leading in InDesign, resulting in text shifting.
Vertical Alignment in Text Frames	Yes	Vertical Alignment settings are maintained when you open PageMaker publications.
First Baseline	Yes (Limited)	The First Baseline of converted text can appear different than text created in InDesign. The First Baseline of converted text is set to Leading, but the First Baseline of text created in InDesign is set to Ascent by default.
Hyphenation	Yes (Limited)	InDesign uses a different hyphenation method than PageMaker, so line breaks can be different.
Fonts	Yes (Limited)	All fonts in a PageMaker publication should be active when the publication is opened in InDesign. InDesign can continue to list fonts as missing if they are activated after the PageMaker publication is opened.
Applied Bold or Italic Font Attributes	Yes (Limited)	InDesign preserves bold or italic formatting if the correct typeface is installed (for example, Tekton Bold). If the typeface is not installed, then the font is identified as missing in InDesign and is substituted. InDesign retains information about what text had bold or italic formatting applied to it so you can reformat it after substitution.
Shadow Text Attribute (Mac OS only)	No	Shadow text converts to plain text.
Outline Text Attribute (Mac OS only)	Yes (Limited)	Outline text converts as text with a stroke of .25 inches and a fill of paper.
Expert Tracking Values	No	Expert tracking values revert to a zero kerning value.
Paragraph Rules	Yes (Limited)	All paragraph rules convert as solid lines. Differences in the InDesign leading method affect the position of paragraph rules. Tints applied to paragraph rules are preserved.
[No style] Paragraph Style	Yes (Limited)	The [No style] in PageMaker is the equivalent of [Basic Paragraph] in InDesign CS2 or [No Paragraph Style] in InDesign CS. However, [Basic Paragraph] and [No Paragraph Style] picks up the attributes of a named style if that style was selected before any typing occurred in the PageMaker publication.
Text Links	No	Linked text documents are embedded upon conversion.
Hyperlinks	Yes	--
Bullets and Numbering	Yes	InDesign applies bullets and numbering as normal, editable, characters.
Data Merge	Yes (CS2, CS PageMaker Edition)No (CS)	InDesign treats text fields as regular text until you establish a link to the data source file.
Color	Supported?	Notes
Tints	Yes (Limited)	Tints are converted as percentages of the parent color. If the parent color isn't in the Swatches palette, it's added during conversion. When an object with a tint is selected, the parent color is selected in the Swatches palette, and the tint value appears in the pop-up menu.
HLS Colors	No	InDesign converts color swatches based on the HLS color model to RGB values.
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