!Restored: Importing/linking a Word/Text file

[Anonymous]

I'm looking for a way to bring in a large amount of text (from Word, preferably) for our Specifications sheets. Typically they run about 4 - 5 full pages (D size), sometimes much more on a small commercial project.

The text is written by one of our Architects, and it is my job to bring it in to Plotmaker. Typically the text is formatted into sections and I have to cut & paste them, then resize the text box to the right column width, then cut some of the text to place in the next column if there's too much text, or paste in some from the next section if there's too little. It's a lot of cut & paste.

I've looked in the manual to no avail for an easier way...

What I'd hope to do is link the text in the Word file to the text box in Plotmaker (or in ArchiCAD if necessary) and have the text wrap to the spaces(columns?).

I'd settle for cutting the text and pasting it all into one formatted space which I could arrange in columns on my page(s).

Any help you could give me would be great. I gotta stop spending days doing this task...

[Chazz]

siteline wrote:
my text comes into plotmaker pixelated (and I tried several different settings and formats) and looks like heck. Any suggestions?

Pixilation is inherent in a raster image. The key is getting the balance between image quality and file size. Yeah, it takes some tweaking. I use JPG with a 300KB fils size limit and call that good enough. I'm trying to attach an example file but I'm not sure if it's working.....

[Djordje]

Daniel wrote:
I personally think we should have a "lounge" forum, for discussions such as these, i find myself wanting to make obscure comments all the time, but I refrain in favour of keeping things on topic...

We do ...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/archiPUB