Andrew Mac Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 I am wiondering how to import a word document into VW Aech 11.5. It seems that everything I try and import a document the specing get all out wack and some words are group together while others are not. Is there a way to correct this?? Quote Link to comment
Don@Black Dog Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 (edited) Not really, except you can copy/paste into a text box, but will lose most formatting (tabs, etc). We had a string starting on 6/21 that ran through some options, including using url's, keynote formating and the like, but no direct importing of Word (or Excel) documnets,let alone linked (interactive). 12.5 has a PDF capability that seems promising, though I have not used it. Anyone tried yet? Edited September 17, 2006 by blackdogarch Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted September 18, 2006 Share Posted September 18, 2006 Welcome to vectorworks hell. I've resorted to exporting my specs out of excel into InDesign, printing to PDF, opening in Illustrator, saving as a DXF then importing into vectorworks so that my file size does not spin out of control because the program will not save your formatting on a PC (yes there is a company bias) if you try to import as text, so you are left to import as an image which becomes a bitmap of text. Its insane. I can only hope that the new PDF algorithm (12.5 is worth the upgrade) will save a few steps here. If Nemetschek would simply suck it up and pay for Object linking with Microsoft (go look at Archicad or for that matter Adobe InDesign) the text would come in as a linked object, whcih you could then edit directly in Word. Quote Link to comment
atari2600 Posted September 19, 2006 Share Posted September 19, 2006 I just printed out some plans with word and excel pdf documents in them, and they look excellent. Best thing is you can bring in all the sheets of the pdf at once. The "export to pdf" works just as well. Now we don't have to spend an extra 10k for Arobat Pro. Matt D Quote Link to comment
cbaarch Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 the solution upgrade to 12.5 which can import pdf files so just a matter of exporting pdf out of word and putting them in the design layer so you can crop them for larger sheets Quote Link to comment
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