Pasting text

[Hughster]

In the process of putting together a newsletter and repeatedly get the message
"could not complete the paste command because the text block is too large" no
matter that it is not large at all! Originally copied from MS Word into a text
box in Freehand MX, now attempting to paste into a text block which flows onto
several pages. Any ideas??

[Martin Gamache]

If you have notepad paste the text into notepad first. Then copy from
notepad to FH

mg


"Hughster" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> In the process of putting together a newsletter and repeatedly get the

message

> "could not complete the paste command because the text block is too large"

no

> matter that it is not large at all! Originally copied from MS Word into a

text

> box in Freehand MX, now attempting to paste into a text block which flows

onto

> several pages. Any ideas??
>

[laihuattan]

Hi Hughster,

FH has a limitation on the total amount of text it can paste onto a text box. Maybe you can paste it a few times and created 2 or more text boxes.

thanks

[Hughster]

Thanks for the responses. I still haven't been able to solve the problem. I am on a Mac; is that why I don't know what 'notepad' is?

[Martin Gamache]

I guess notepad is a PC app. sorry. Is there a simple ascii text editor on a
mac?
You essentially need to strip out any formatting from the text which I've
found Freehand doesnt like when copying text blocks from Word to Freehand.
By pasting it into notepad it removes all the junk and then I can copy/paste
in Fh without any problems.



mg


"Hughster" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the responses. I still haven't been able to solve the problem.

I am on a Mac; is that why I don't know what 'notepad' is?

[Wes Rand]

Martin Gamache wrote:

> I guess notepad is a PC app. sorry. Is there a simple ascii text
> editor on a mac? You essentially need to strip out any formatting
> from the text which I've found Freehand doesnt like when copying text
> blocks from Word to Freehand. By pasting it into notepad it removes
> all the junk and then I can copy/paste in Fh without any problems.
>

That would be TextEdit. Thought I find Tex-Edit
([url]http://www.tex-edit.com/[/url]) much more useful for cleaning up text.

[laihuattan]

It's usless whatever you do if you have super long text to paste into FH,
(think is about 22,000 words)
cos there is a limited to the number of text you can paste into the text box
itself. You have to break it up
or Freehand will behave wiredly.

btw, you can just copy for MS word and paste special unformated text, also.
If your text is not long enought to reach the maximum limit.

[Edo@adobeforums.com]

When you paste, Indesign CS doesn't retain the original format of the pasting text. Until there it's good. The problem is that the text keep the format of the last paragrah of my Indesign layout. It's very annoying when all my paragrahs are full justified with the last line aligned left but with the last paragraph full justified with a flush space in front of a decorative glyph. So all my paragraphs become also full justified. It isn't more sensible that the pasting text is rather based on the first paragraph?

[mikewitherell_at_jetsetcom_dot_net]

Notice in General Preferences that you can switch on or off the ability to paste with styles or without. If you paste without styles, the text can easily be formatted to your paragraph style at a click. You can also alt-click to apply a paragraph style and at the same time over-ride any local formatting. Also, you can alt-shift click to apply the paragraph style that will over-ride all extra formatting including character styles.

Your pasting of text is influenced by the paragraph that you are clicked into. Are you working with paragraph styles, or are you formatting as you go?

Mike Witherell

[Svend]

To get rid of all formattings you could paste the text into Notepad and then
copy from there to Inddesign.

Svend

<Edo@adobeforums.com> skrev i en meddelelse
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> When you paste, Indesign CS doesn't retain the original format of the

pasting text. Until there it's good. The problem is that the text keep the
format of the last paragrah of my Indesign layout. It's very annoying when
all my paragrahs are full justified with the last line aligned left but with
the last paragraph full justified with a flush space in front of a
decorative glyph. So all my paragraphs become also full justified. It isn't
more sensible that the pasting text is rather based on the first paragraph?

[Edo@adobeforums.com]

I'm working with paragraph styles but for my last paragraph I have to put full justify with a flush manually.