ANNOSYNC · WORD TO INDESIGN WITH PINYIN

Lay out Word manuscripts in InDesign, pinyin included

Runs locally · files stay on this machine Pinyin Guide readings kept Long documents flow

For children's books, pinyin textbooks and language workbooks: Pinyin Guide readings, styles, tables, inline images and page numbers move from Word into InDesign under checkable rules; a post-import read-back reports type size, text width and ruby counts item by item.

For production and editorial staff working on children's books, pinyin textbooks and language workbooks.

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Windows 10 / 11 InDesign required Word import Read-back check

Word Import Toolkit main window — Main window: import Word, choose page and pinyin fonts; the log reports each step (demo data).

Core capabilities

01 / PINYIN GUIDE

Pinyin Guide readings kept

Word's Pinyin Guide comes into InDesign as-is, preferring the readings proofread in Word.

02 / WORD JOIN

Per-word and per-character modes

Word-level joining uses a 47,111-entry dictionary; in both per-character and per-word modes each character carries only its own syllable.

03 / FONTS & PAGES

Fonts and page presets

Eight pinyin fonts (RjPinyin, follow body text, Arial, Times New Roman, SimSun, SimHei, KaiTi, Microsoft YaHei) and five page presets (A4, B5, 16mo, 32mo, large 16mo).

04 / TONE COLOURS

Five tone colours

Five tone colours, shared by the ruby and the HTML preview.

05 / LONG DOCUMENTS

Flow and read-back

Long documents flow across pages and link text frames (up to 400 pages); limits and hidden text are logged; a post-import read-back self-check reports item by item.

06 / EXTRAS

Practice sheets, images, batch

One-click tracing sheets (tianzige or four-line grids with pinyin), automatic extraction of inline images at original size, and batch import of multiple Word files with a per-file summary.

Sample output

Demo data only (synthetic samples); click to enlarge.

Per-character ruby sample — Per-character ruby: each character carries only its own syllable.

Tone-coloured sample — Five tone colours: first red, second green, third blue, fourth purple, neutral grey.

Erhua sample — Erhua: a trailing er merges into the preceding character (hua'er → huār), while lexical er stays separate.

Table ruby and inline images: images are placed at original size from a same-name folder.

Word-level joining sample — Word-level joining: the whole word's pinyin sits above it; sentence-initial capitals stay.

Limits

Limitations

Runs inside InDesign; it is not a layout engine and does not alter existing layouts.
Footnotes, endnotes and list numbering are not processed; legacy .doc is not supported; paragraph spacing, first-line indent, justification, page numbers and headers, facing-page bleed and vertical typesetting are not yet supported.
Neutral-tone marking follows rules; a custom word list is recommended for exceptions.
Automatic flow is limited to 400 pages; limits and hidden text are recorded in the log.
Perpetual licence, one machine per card. Activation requires one online check; the licence works offline afterwards. Before activating on a new machine, unbind the original device.

Workflow

STEP 01

Import Word

Select one or more Word files; perform simplified/traditional conversion first if required.

STEP 02

Select pages and fonts

Five page presets, eight pinyin fonts; set the ruby layout and tone colours for the target readers.

STEP 03

Lay out in InDesign

Long documents flow automatically and link text frames; inline images are placed at original size.

STEP 04

Read-back check

A post-import check reports type size, text width and ruby counts item by item.

Specifications

Proofread readings

The Pinyin Guide is imported into InDesign as-is, preferring the readings proofread in Word.

Licence and devices

Perpetual licence, one machine per card. Activation requires one online check. Before activating on a new machine, unbind the original device and enter the card key on the new device.

Purchase and installer

Select “Buy now” on this page or in the product overview. After payment, the installer is available under “My tools” in the account centre.

Lay out pinyin-annotated Word manuscripts in InDesign

Perpetual licence · one card per machine · automatic updates · one online activation

¥88 / machine

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