Back

If your email is not recognized and you believe it should be, please contact us.

  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.Login

Converting A Text Object Back To Text?

Return to Member Forum

  • Author
    Posts
    • March 12, 2012 at 8:45 am #61783
      a4poster
      Participant

      Hi, I have been giving a file in inDesign by a Client. In it they want some wording changed but they have converted all the text to objects. Is there a way of converting a text object back to standard text?

      Thanks in advance,
      A4.

    • March 12, 2012 at 11:30 am #61784
      Theunis De Jong
      Member

      Not automatically, no. No chance of requesting an un-vectorized file, I guess?

      If it's a lot of text, you could try exporting it to PDF, forcing it into a bitmap format (maybe with a slightly transparent object on top) and set the transparency flattener to output bitmaps only. Then you could use Acrobat Pro's OCR feature to re-read the text.

      If this sound like too much trouble, delete the objects and re-type the text.

    • March 12, 2012 at 6:50 pm #61785
      mckayk777
      Member

      Even if you just output to pdf and leave it like that, if you have Acrobat Pro it has a sort of ocr built into it but a better one is ABBYY Finereader, once your used that you will not look back

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 2 reply threads
  • The forum ‘General InDesign Topics (CLOSED)’ is closed to new topics and replies.
Forum Ads