Copy text from AI to any other app ?

[BrunoSouth]

I can not paste AI texts (selected by my text tool) into any other app, not even text editors. Well, I can, but It is pasted as a non-editable bounding box. Like a PDF or Image I am not sure.

Thanks

[Eric Dumas]

Hi,

Check your preferences, you seem to copy as pdf (imagine taking only screenshots instead of copying the text itself).

Preferences > File Handling and Clipboard options. Try turning off the SVG and PDF to see if it helps.

To give you the best feedback possible, make sure to include your Computer OS type and version and the software version that you use.

[BrunoSouth]

Thanks Eric I will check and get back to the forum.

[BrunoSouth]

Ok worked at least in my text editor by unchecking SVG and PDF.

It is not working with apple pages...Do you know why ?

[Bill Silbert]

You did not say what version of Illustrator that you are using. If your version of Illustrator is Illustrator 10 or earlier then the text in it is what is called "legacy" text. If you were to open a file created in the earlier version of Illustrator in a more current version you would be given the option to update it to the more current type and it would be editable and usable in current applications. If you were to try to copy and paste it "as is" into current apps it seems to me that the behavior you're describing would occur. If your version of Illustrator is more current than Illustrator 10 then I've just wasted a perfectly good theory.

[Monika Gause]

You can't select legacy text with the text tool.

If you select it as a text object and copy/paste it to another Illustrator file, it will stay legacy text.

If you paste it to a text editor (TextEdit), it will be SVG code

I suspect a clipboard enhancing app in this case. Copy/paste text should always work with a text editor (at least as long as it is set up to edit plain text).

Also a couple of versions ago there has been a bug with pasting text, but that has been fixed. So as long as Illustrator is up to date and the text editor is set to plain text, then I would search for the clipboard enhancer.

[Bill Silbert]

My theory was based on the OP still using Illustrator 10 (a remote possibility I agree) in which case legacy text could still be selected ( at least in theory).

[Monika Gause]

If the OP was still on Illustrator 10, that text wouldn't be legacy text, but just text.

[Bill Silbert]

But what would happen if that text was pasted into an up to date text editor? (I realize that none of this is relevant unless the OP is actually working with a version that is so old).

[Monika Gause]

What happens on copy/paste is mostly determined by the operating system handling the contents of the clipboard.

If this Illustrator 10 is run on Windows 10, then maybe the 32 bit emulation might cause some issues, but I'm not that deep into Windows to know any details about the how well the 32 bit emulation and the 64 bit system are integrated with one another.

[BrunoSouth]

It is osX and last Illustrator. Thanks

[BrunoSouth]

It is not working in my text editors. I am using the last version of AI and the last of OSX. Thanks

[Monika Gause]

Bruno_S  schrieb

the last of OSX. Thanks

High Sierra?

It's known to cause trouble.

[BrunoSouth]

Yes...'high sierra' . Do you think this is the problem ? Its not possible to copy+paste any text into any other app.

So far I have been re-writing everything again

[Monika Gause]

It causes several issues. At the moment you won't find people willing to install High Sierra voluntarily only for finding a solution to this issue. Which probably is not there anyway.

[BrunoSouth]

oh...hope they fix it, if this is a osX sierra problem.

[jamesb60150607]

I have the same issue. Occasional I am able to copy sections of text in Illustrator, but most of the time it is pasting as an image. Extremely annoying. Copy/paste works perfectly with non-adobe software. So this must be an Adobe issue. I have latest Ai and Mac OS Mojave.

My working 'solution' is to open the Ai file in apple preview, where it works fine.

[Monika Gause]

jamesb60150607  schrieb

I have the same issue.

You're copying from exactly where to exactly where?

Which versions of software?

Do you copy the text object or the text?

[jamesb60150607]

ai 22.0.0

I highlight the text with the text tool and copy - doesn't work. I highlight the text box with the select tool - doesn't work. Copy and paste anyway (any non adobe product).

I'l try and do it below:

[Monika Gause]

Your attachment unfortunately doesn't work. Whatever that file is - can you upload it to Dropbox or the like and post a link?