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Ad Owl Print Version Does Not Display Bolded Words but Online Preview Does

editor 5 hours ago in BLOX CMS • 0

Has anyone found a way to preserve selected-word bold, italics and underlining in Ad-Owl’s print preview?

At the Stone County Enterprise, formatting applied when creating a legal ad displays correctly in the saved online content, but disappears from the print preview. Rebuilding the ad does not resolve it.

We also found that:

  • The Ad-Owl XML export contains plain text without the formatting.
  • Exporting the same ads from Marketplace → Classifieds produces a CSV that preserves the HTML formatting in the adtext column.

We use the Ad-Owl export to bring scheduled ads into InDesign CS6 through a script. Ideally, we would like one export that preserves both the formatting and the print-order information.

Is there an Ad-Owl setting, supported markup or export method that handles this? I’d appreciate hearing how other newspapers manage formatted legal ads for print.