Graphics Programs Reference
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7.
Drag the text area down on top of the brown end of the yellow lion's tail.
Importing a plain text file
You can import text into artwork from a file that was created in another application.
Illustrator supports the following formats for importing text:
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Microsoft Word (doc)
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Microsoft Word DOCX (docx)
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Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF [rtf])
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Plain text (txt)(ASCII) with ANSI, Unicode, Shift JIS, GB2312, Chinese Big 5,
Cyrillic, GB18030, Greek, Turkish, Baltic, and Central European encoding.
One of the advantages of importing text from a file, rather than copying and pasting it, is that
imported text retains its character and paragraph formatting. For example, text from an RTF
file retains its font and style specifications in Illustrator.
1.
Choose View > Fit Artboard In Window, and then choose Select > Deselect.
2.
Choose File > Place. Navigate to the Lesson07 folder in the Lessons folder, select the
L7text.txt file, select Show Import Options, and click Place.
Note
The figures are from the Windows OS, so the settings that you see may be
different on Mac OS, and that's okay.
3.
In the Text Import Options dialog box, you can set some options prior to importing text.
Leave the default settings, and then click OK.
