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#707 by yarrateck
Fri Jul 17, 2009 11:46 am
ProgeCad dose not seem to support importing multi-line text - If it does can you tell me how it is done.

You can add it as a block but then you can't chage it.

At present I have been able to use an OCR program to convert documents to text, save in it and import it into AcadLT( 98 ) as multi line text.

I then import the AcadLT file into the ProgeDAD drawing. (a messy way to do things)

This would be a welcome addition to the new version. :idea:

Mike....
#712 by caddit
Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:21 am
yarrateck,


This feature is planned for progeCAD 2010.

Right now you have a couple of options:
1) You can simply copy-and-paste from the text file into the _MTEXT command dialog, which is editable from progeCAD afterwards.

2) You can use a free VBA/AutoLISP script to do the job like TextIn from http://www.jefferypsanders.com/autolisp.html. This is a simple LISP script which creates a editable text entity for each line of the text file you specify.

3) As a wierd idea you might be able to live-link text content as an OLE2 container object, but I haven't seen it in action.