Hey guys,
I am having problems when trying to paste text from Microsoft word. the pasted text becomes unreadable / corrupted. Well here is my situation, I have a large number of text that I'm trying to insert into Corel Draw X4.
and if I convert the word document to PDF, I receive the same thing. I tried importing the text as image, worked but can't edit the text nor the text is in good quality (quality is very poor, cannot be used for plot)
Any suggestions would be great guys. I am using Microsoft Vista x64 / Arabic enabled (can type just about everything in MS Word/Excel etc...)
By the way, I can type the text in corel, and it works great, but I have some 200 pages, so you get the idea! it's hard work for me to type all the 200 pages :(
Thanks guys for all your support
I have no experience in Arabic, but even in English, text from word is always a real pain. It brings in unwanted control characters, styles and formatting that interferes with proper layout functions.
The method I use is to copy text from word to the clipboard, paste it into notepad (which removes all control characters and formatting) and then paste from notepad into a new CorelDraw text frame. With paragraphs its probably convenient to do this one paragraph at a time.
The result is clean, editable and reformattable text, but it also loses any effects such as bold and italic so you have to reapply them. Nevertheless, it is a hundred times faster and safer to reapply the effects than to try to work round microsoft's embedded garbage.
I've no idea whether Arabic text would survive the journey through notepad, but if it does then I think it might solve your problem.