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Why doesn't print software include a "placeholder" text formatting function? You highlight some text and mark it as placeholder. You can toggle on highlighting when you want to find it to replace, or toggle off to see what it looks like as a final piece. It could also auto-generate lipsum for you. Also, before you publish it, it'll warn you if you have any placeholder text left.



Adobe InDesign certainly does support this. Commercial newspapers are usually using some archaic program though.


Having seen the software used by many newspapers I'm not surprised they don't. But this sounds like a great idea to me.


it's not that they don't necessarily have the functionality- maybe they just don't use it?




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