• Adobe Illustrator

  Maintaining Text Formatting when Copying and Pasting into new project

  Posted by Jaeson Jrakman on July 26, 2016 at 3:17 pm

  I’m working in Illustrator CS6, Windows 8.1.

  So I have an AI file, which was exported from Corel Draw, and it opens up pretty much perfectly, with no severe problems.

  I try to copy text from this AI file, and past in place into a new AI project, but the formatting of the text doesn’t follow. I have to go in and reformat the text. Since I am working on a map, there’s a significant amount of text so I’d prefer not to have to reformat it all.

  I suspect that it may have something to do specifically with the exported Corel Draw file, since I can create a new AI project, type out text in the new project, copy it, and past it into the old project, and the text formatting is maintained.

  Is there a way that I can be sure to maintain the formatting in the text when copying and pasting?

  Thanks in advance for any help anyone can give!

  Kalleheikki Kannisto replied 9 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Kalleheikki Kannisto

  July 29, 2016 at 5:02 pm

  Never having used CorelDraw, I don’t know what the problem is, but if you can outline the type (Type>create outlines) without the look changing, then you can copy and paste it as artwork rather than type.

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