Splicing Text Into One Text Path From Multiple Text Paths

Splicing Text Into One Text Path From Multiple Text Paths.

From time to time we are forced to scavenge a PDF for get copy and graphic content. If you do this by opening the PDF in Illustrator, you will see that blocks of text are arranged in multiple text paths. To quickly splice this text into one text path or text box, select all of the text by marqueeing with one of the object selection tools. Then cut or copy the selection. Finally, in a different area of your document, click with the text tool or drag with the text tool to create a text box, then paste. You will now have all of the text in one path or box.

Read through the text to revise any errors, such as no spaces, extra spaces or bad line breaks.

There are other ways of acquiring text from a PDF...which I will cover in a future posting.