Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

Adobe Illustrator provides several commands that make creating and working with 
columns or blocks of type easy. The various features enable you to import and export text 
from non-Illustrator files, link text so that it flows from one column to another, create sets 
of columns for text, wrap text so that it flows around a piece of artwork, and speed up the 
display of type when you don’t need to read the text in your artwork.

You can import text into Adobe Illustrator from a file that was created in another 
application. This allows you to format and spell-check your text in a word-processing 
application before you bring it into Illustrator. (For a list of supported text formats, 
see 

One advantage of importing text from a file, rather than copying and pasting it, is that 
imported text retains its character and paragraph formatting. For example, text from an 
RTF (Rich Text Format) file retains its font and styles in Illustrator. You can also set encoding 
and formatting options when importing text from a plain text (.txt) file.

Choose File > Open, select the text file you want to open, and click Open. 

1 Do one of the following:

Choose File > Place. Select the text file you want to import, and click Place.

Drag the text file from your desktop onto the selected object on your artboard.

2 If you selected a plain text (.txt) file, do the following, and then click OK:

Specify the character set and platform that were used to create the file. 

Select Extra Carriage Returns options to determine how Illustrator processes extra 

carriage returns in the file.

Select the Extra Spaces option if you want Illustrator to replace strings of spaces in the 

file with tabs. Enter the number of spaces to be replaced by a tab.

The Export command exports text from point type, type paths, and type containers to a 
new text file in plain text format.