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Is there a command or workaround in Illustrator to convert "Area Text" to "Point Text" ?
This would be very useful for all those text elements that we converted from FreeHand and show up in illustrator as "mini columns". Such a text is locked up inside its non-expanding "Area".
We prefer them to behave like decent "Point Texts" with just one anchor point for every text element.
Thanks!
Marijn Bosma
info@BosmaGrafiek.NL
Illustrator "Area Text" to "Point Text" ?
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, Nov 01 2008 03:57 PM
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Posted 01 November 2008 - 03:57 PM
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Posted 02 November 2008 - 02:35 AM
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Hello Marijn,
Rick Johnson has made a script that does that (scroll a bit down on the page). I haven't tried this myself though.
Rick Johnson has made a script that does that (scroll a bit down on the page). I haven't tried this myself though.
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Posted 03 November 2008 - 08:43 AM
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Wow he has good tools out there, but alas they are all for Mac. Any programming pro to convert these for Windows platform? I tried opening one file after decompressing it by Stuffit but it is all gibberish.Hello Marijn,
Rick Johnson has made a script that does that (scroll a bit down on the page). I haven't tried this myself though.
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Posted 09 November 2008 - 02:59 PM
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Posted 10 November 2008 - 10:19 AM
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Thanks Kevin. These are great scripts.Try Kelso's scripts for PC. I use them every day.
http://kelsocartography.com/scripts/
Cheers, Kevin
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I downloaded the script on my mac but when I try to use it it says:Error:The variable cur is not defined.
anybody can help me out here?
anybody can help me out here?
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Posted 10 January 2011 - 04:56 AM
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Hi, i bumped into the same problem, so i wrote a crude script to convert area to point text in javascript.
Beware : order and text properties may not be preserved.
Beware : order and text properties may not be preserved.
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