Load text from files and save text to files

 

Annotate tab > Text group > (FileText) menu > Load text from a file, FILETEXT
 

Annotate tab > Text group > (FileText) menu > Save text to file, FILETEXT

Load a text file into a drawing, or save text objects from one layer onto a text file.

Load texts from a file into a drawing

Do the following:

  1. In the Text file name dialog, navigate to the text file.

  2. Click Open.

  3. Indicate the start point of the first line.

  4. Indicate the text angle.

The program creates an individual text object from each of the lines of text in the file and draws them one line at a time starting from the start point and using the current text settings.

If the file has tabulators, the program moves the text one character to the right in their place. The file can also have Unicode characters, in which case the program must use a font that supports Unicode characters.

Unicode is an international standard, which defines the character sets for most common languages in the world. Unicode standard is based on a 16 bit character set, which means that it can contain over 65000 different characters. Some fonts contain Unicode compliant characters.

The code syntax is \U+nnnn where n is the hexadecimal code of the character.

You can use hexadecimal codes when adding text to any text or attribute command. For example, to enter the code of capital A of the latin character set in the TEXT command, do as follows:

>TEXT

Start point: <point>

Rotation angle: 0<Enter>

Text: \U+0041

Save text from the drawing into a text file

Do the following:

  1. In the Text file name dialog, enter a name for the tile.

  2. For file type, select Text files (*.txt).

  3. Click Save.

The program saves the file as a text file that you can edit using a text editor. The program saves all the text elements on the layer as individual lines from top to bottom and from left to right.