Text blocks in Illustrator

One way that happens is saving down from a newer version of Illustrator. If that is the case, you should re-open it in the newer version. If you must do your editing in an older version, maybe the text could be copied & pasted, saved in a word processing format, or emailed to yourself...


...if it never was in a newer version, than I'm not sure what other options exist... but I'd guess it was brought in from some other program, so I'd try to go back to wherever the typesetting was originally done.

 

Yeah usually I see this when opening a pdf/eps made with newer illy or corel, etc another vendor proggy

 

Marie.. save the file as a pdf... open in reader... select text and copy back into Illy. SHould retain your formatting but will put extra line breaks in.. much easier to fix those then combine all those little lines of text.

Edited to Add: Share! That would be a real useful script!

 

Marie,
what is your solution (script)?
put it in this post for others to find in future searches

 

looks like some interesting stuff - thx for the link

 

thanks!