Re: [artworks] Getting text from a PDF into ArtWorks
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:29:19 +0000
On 24 Mar at 14:54, Eddie <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<on transferring text from outside into Artworks>
> By chance I was transferring some graphs over from my mac to Artworks
> today.
>
> I was pleasantly surprised to find that individual and some pairs of
> letters were editable. This is exporting from OmniGraphSketcher via
> pdf format. Useful when the axes numbers can easily be changed.
Apart from shadows, I find that most graphical objects transfer well
from my Mac (with virtual windows) to ArtWorks.
But text is indeed split into individual characters and has odd spaces
inserted all over. It takes a very long time to merge all the fragments
together into sentences and paragraphs. However if the vector image can
be transferred from ArtWorks into Draw format, then Rosemary Miskins'
TidyDraw makes a good job of putting the majority of the letters back
into words; but there is still some manual editing needed.
--
Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx
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