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  Posted by Shane Drew on 12 February 2005 at 10:27

  I have a client that has sent a word doc file with japanese text, and I need to convert it to curves for importing into corel. It has to be overlaid onto a picture

  Anyone got any clues?

  I can cut and past, but it comes across all sorts of strange graphics. Been on this for hours and all that is happening is that I am losing vast amounts of hair 😥

  any help would be appreciated

  cheers
  Shane

  Shane Drew replied 20 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Steve Broughton

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  12 February 2005 at 10:51

  Shane have a look at this http://www.msu.edu/~bellbri2/ime.html

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  Bill Dewison

  Member

  12 February 2005 at 11:08

  Not the most economic way, but you could screengrab the Word document, then trace the resulting bitmap in CorelDRAW 😕 By the time you’ve sorted out the some way of transporting the text, this may be the quickest way in the long run depending on the amount of text.

  Cheers, Dewi

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  Shane Drew

  Member

  12 February 2005 at 11:08

  Thanks Steve. Very interesting.

  From what I have discovered, the japanese text only works within a microsoft product. That explains why it will not work in corel.

  May finish up printing it and then scanning it back in 😥

  I only fear that if I don’t do it right, I could end up saying something in Japanese that is not what is intended. 🙄

  Thanks for the link steve. I appreciate your time.

  Shane

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  Shane Drew

  Member

  12 February 2005 at 11:11

  Dewi, what a good idea!

  It is an A4 page worth, so a screen dump may be the best option.

  Talk about thinking outside the square 😮

  Thanks buddy, the combined talents here helps me out again.

  Cheers

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  Adrian Howard

  Member

  12 February 2005 at 11:27

  we did some chinese lettering a while back and i got the client to setup a pdf from word, they loaded pdf software as a printer when you go to print it gives you an option to print to file with text converted to curves, hey presto once a pdf ready to import into corel as a vector, worked for us but the customer was a bit clued up on downloading a PDF driver, worth a shot

  Adrian

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  Shane Drew

  Member

  12 February 2005 at 11:39

  Thanks Adrian.

  Another good idea!

  I did that with chinese myself a few years back. Not sure how I did it now but I’ll give it a go too.

  Thanks for everyones help to date.

  My wife has just checked my scalp and she tells me I am only hours from being bald if I don’t resolve this problem soon 😥

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