Transforming MS Word or Word Perfect documents

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George_Masi
Apr 24, 2005
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I’m sure I’ve seen somewhere a tutorial clip about transforming MS Word or Word Perfect documents into Photoshop paragraph text but I can’t find any information about this in the PS Help files.

Can anyone tell me where I can find this or have I imagined it all?

Thanks,
George Masi
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Ol__Whozit
Apr 24, 2005
Photoshop text? No.
Adobe PDF? Yes.
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Tina_Hayes
Apr 24, 2005
Copy and paste…which is a pain becuase the text all gets pasted in one long line.
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Tina_Hayes
Apr 24, 2005
Does that pdf converter convert as text or does it make an image out of the text?
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deebs
Apr 24, 2005
The easiest and relatively costfree way to obtain a PDF from text documents IMHO seems to be Easy Office, maybe even Star Office too?

I am not too convinced that the converter engine in Easy Office is the best but for the cost (zero USD) it seems a good way to bounce files about.
DM
dave_milbut
Apr 24, 2005
configurable font embedding, so i’m guessing you can go either way tina. i’ve used it, but it’s been a while. quick and easy.
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Don_McCahill
Apr 24, 2005
which is a pain becuase the text all gets pasted in one long line.

Not if you paste into an area text, created by dragging the type tool rather than just clicking on the screen.

Don McCahill
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Phosphor
Apr 24, 2005
I never have need to do it, but isn’t there also some trick where you copy the MS text, then paste it into WordPad or some other simple text application, thereby stripping out any rich-text formatting? Then you copy the WordPad text and paste into Photoshop?

Something like that sticks in my mind, anyway…
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Klaas_Visser
Apr 25, 2005
What Phosphor said.

I use NotePad for this, as WordPad still retains some MS text formating code. I’ve found it to be the easiest/cheapest method of getting text from one application to another, without any baggage.
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Frank
Apr 25, 2005
Phosphor wrote:

I never have need to do it, but isn’t there also some trick where you copy the MS text, then paste it into WordPad or some other simple text application, thereby stripping out any rich-text formatting? Then you copy the WordPad text and paste into Photoshop?

Something like that sticks in my mind, anyway…

Just use Notepad as it will dump all the formatting and just give you pure text. Works with any app.
Frank
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Tina_Hayes
Apr 25, 2005
You know I keep forgetting that I can drag a type selection box!

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