Re: [artworks] Getting text from a PDF into ArtWorks

  • From: Ned Abell <nedabell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:30:20 +0000 (GMT)

On 04 Dec, <rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Today I wanted to clip the ArtWorks Keyboard short-cuts
> page from the ArtWorks Manual (AW2_A5Full) in order to
> paste it into an ArtWorks document.

> I have not been able to find a satisfactory way to do it.

> Saving the page as text from !PDF or RiScript makes a real
> mess, and saving as a draw file is little better as all
> the text is exported as single characters.

> Dropping the PDF on ArtWorks is not a good idea either. The
> ArtWorks PDF import is not happy with a 3M 100 page
> document and abends with:-

[Snip]

> Can anyone suggest a solution that does not involve using
> another operating system?

Hi John,
Ive just done it with the A4 pdf version dropping it into !pdf
exporting the single page as a drawfile and dropping that into
AW.
HTH

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besters..
          Ned
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