Hi everyone ! I'm a little ashamed of requesting help on my first post but I'd appreciate some tips on this matter.
I wanted to print this book:
https://archive.org/details/damefashionparis00pricuoft, so I started with the PDF version and ran it through ABBYY Finereader since it seemed the fastest way: preserve the layout, correct where needs be and jump to the printing part. But it didn't turn out this easy. Editing the text frames is painful if not impossible at times, with the little side columns literally untamable. And the second issue is that for some reason the font I decided to use doesn't appear in the style editor.
So I thought I'd do all the post processing in InDesign, however all the formats I've tried lose their layout when they are placed and I'm left with manually adjusting and splitting the imported text frames and, since it's a rather long book, it'd take quite some time. My first question is can InDesign pages be setup with paragraph and columns already set up where I can place the text within ?
Or is there a completely different, better approach to the whole thing ? (maybe giving up the side columns
)