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When you open in Illustrator a PDF file generated from InDesign or QuarkXPress, you certainly noticed that the paragraphs are always split into several text frames, at least one for each text line but often you even see multiple contiguous text frames on the same line. If you do not have available the source file and you want to be able to edit the text from the PDF using Illustator, it is more convenient to have one single text frame with several lines, where you can then insert or delete words or whole lines, modify the leading, alignment, kerning, tracking, etc.
As i promised you in my first article "Fit a text to an outline", here is a script that will enable you to merge text parts together to get multi-line text frames.
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Someone provided you with a file (such as ai, pdf, eps) and you are now asked to edit a text line in it using Illustrator, but unfortunately this text has been converted to outlines 
If you have ever been through this before, you know that you have to cope with some difficulties to get to it : identify the font, get it (legally !) and load it, if this font is not already in your system or font manager, and finally recreate the text with exactly the same typeface size and horizontal scale.
This simple script without any dialog box nor option will help you to accomplish the last step by enabling you to fit exactly the text to the bounds of a vector object. For example you type and format with the needed font the first letter of the text you want to recreate, you select both the text and the corresponding outline and the script fits the text to the outline.
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It's so easy to convert an anchor point from angle to rounded and back. An alt clic on your point makes an agled one, an alt clic and drag switches to rounded.
But what if you have a lot of points to handle....? Are you seriuously thinking about clicking hours and hours ? What abour using this script ?
Use
Select points to convert to rounded and then launch the script.
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Here are two Illustrator scripts for working on paths.
- The first one closes all the selected open paths (or all open paths if there is no selection).
- The second one quickly changes the orientation of one or multiple paths. Interesting if you want to add a shape to that path and need a change in the path direction.
Use
CloseAllPath
- If you have selected open paths, these one only will be closed. On the contrary, any open path will be proceeded.
- Run the script…
reverseAllPath
- Select the paths you want to change the direction
- Run the script…
The scripts are available in three languages (english, french and deutsch). Before the first use, you have to set the script speaking language.
To do so, you have to edit the javascript file. Have a look on the included README.txt for the instructions.
