Hello,
I need to import DXF files to Corel, but when I import them, the text appear as paragraph text, not as artistic text...that's not a problem if the paragraph text includes all the text...but it do not do that. Some texts appears as paragraph with red lines (so it is not possible to see it, as well as not possible to convert directly to artistic with Ctrl+F8). Also, some paragraph text appear as 2 lines instead of just one, because it do not feed in wide but yes in height.
I would like to import the text directly as artistic...or as paragraph, but with the same appearance of the original DXF file.
Thanks for your replies and best regards,
Does DXF have a paragraph text format?
I suspect from your description of what happens, either DXF does not fully support paragraph text , or whatever program created your DXF inserted hard returns when it expored the text.
CorelDraw can at most import what you have in the DXF, so if the DXF doesn't define the text as paragraph text you will get at best the text rendered as artistic with predefined line breaks, or at worst, an individual line of text for every line in the paragraph.
A multi-line text object is easily converted to paragraph in CorelDraw, but a series of individual lines is a real pain to deal with.
Hi Harry,
first of all, thank you for your answer.
I have just tried to open de DXF (it comes from a customer, so, I could not control how they export the file) in a CAD program, and there I can convert the text as you have mentioned, into "artistic" text when I import this new file in Corel, and appear as artistic in Corel Draw. Of course I could do that, but it is a double work in two softwares.
Do you know if when importing to Corel, I could say to the importing DXF filter, that the imported paragraph text should have the same size of the text? Because if once imported in Corel, I use the command to resize the text to the dimension of the paragraph box, then it changes the size of the fonts...and in this case, if I have several paragraph text with the same text font size, and I apply this command, some texts that should have the same font size has changed...for example, one could changed from 11 to 10,5, but other could changed to 9...this is really crazy.
Thank you
David Navarra said:I use the command to resize the text to the dimension of the paragraph box, then it changes the size of the fonts..
If I understand what you are doing, you need to make the artistic text into a paragraph text object before you resize it. Once you have it as paragraph text, you can change the size of the paragraph text object without changing the size of the fonts.
If you have the paragraph as several individual lines of text, getting it into a single text object is slightly tricky. You can select all the lines of text and combine them into a single text object, but very often the lines will be in the wrong order after combining and you need to insert line breaks or spaces between the lines that were combined.
It sounds like a job for a macro, but I'm not aware of one.
Sorry Harry for my bad explanation, I will try again
When I import from DXF file, the text appears as a paragraph text, but some appear correct, and some others appear as red doted frame (so the text do not fit on the box). With the red doted ones, I could use the function Adapt text to box (maybe it is not the correct name, as I’m translating from Spanish), but this modifies the size of the font, so it is not good for me. I would need a function that should be like “Adapt text box to text”, which I think it does not exist.
Another option is to convert to artistic text (with Crtl+F8), but if the paragraph text is red doted, I can’t do that (do not work), so I need first to resize de paragraph text, and then I could do that. But I have maybe 20 different paragraph text with red dotted lines, so it is a little bit slow.
Hope this explains better my issue.
Also I have another question with the text…it is possible to select different paragraph text at the same time and convert all to artistic text at the same time? I have seen that I could do that one by one, but when I select two the menu option is greyed.
Thank you Harry for your interest and best regards,
David.
I'm not aware of any solution to this, but there is one thing that may be worth a try:
There's an option for Paragraph text to automatically fit the text frame to the text (Options > Text > Paragraph Text Frame, enable "Expand and shrink paragraph text frames to fit text". This should add space to make all lines fit into the frame automatically.Could be worth a try.
Hi Ronny,
thank you very much for the reply, but unfortunately, this option only work for new paragraph text, and the only thing it does is if you create a new paragraph, while typing the text, it makes bigger the text box.
I attach an image of the problem I have:
As you can see, there are many red dotted borders, which are paragraph text that do not fit on the text box.
Thank you for your help.
Yes, expand and shrink sounds like a possible answer.
This is the opposite of the "fit text to frame" option -- it grows the frame downwards (preserving its width) to ensure all text displays and does not change the size of the font.