Maintain formatting for text when pasting into PS?

[nfable]

Hi, I do layout in PS for brochures for a theatre company and every one I lay out has biographies of people in it who all have Book Credits or Play Credits and I would like to know how to paste text from a document the client sends me that has the correct italics and bold into PS... like a paste and match style; maybe I'm a retard but I could not solve this... not the end of the world; but I have to pour over hundreds of words and visually match the text which opens the door for errors on my end and slows down the finalising layout.

Any tips?

[Rt&Dzine]

It would be a lot easier to use a layout program like InDesign or Quark.

[LeviG]

photoshop doesn't do copy and paste with styles as far as I know.

You can set the styles in the character and paragraph (I think its called that) panels.

I agree with Rt&Dzinee about indesign/quark being better suited to this part of the process

[theNIC]

Just go to Layer > Smart Objects > Convert to Smart Object or something like that and it will maintain its style.

[jrahn]

Indesign is the correct application to be using, quark as well... if you are into that sort of thing. Photoshop is alright for doing text manipulation in a pinch, even illustrator is better than photoshop for text. All the output files should be from a layout program though, you'll want to properly preflight everything and your printer will thank you later.

[bntz313]

use illustrator!