Lorem Ipsum text

Hi Katie:

If starting with Lorem ipsum is important, you can generate the original "classic" lorem ipsum text on this site:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do..."
 https://loremipsum.io/ and use Mike's advice to replace placeholder.txt with what you generate. 

Or, have some fun with others from the same site. Bacon Ipsum?  Hipster Ipsum? Zombie Ipsum? The world is your ipsum: https://loremipsum.io/ultimate-list-of-lorem-ipsum-generators/

~Barb

I vaguely recall that the Lorum Ipsum placeholder text got upgraded to actual Latin text based on Cicero's work circa 45 BCE "De finibus bonorum et malorum" ("On the ends of good and evil") instead of the corrupted famous Lorum Ipsum fragment which came from that work and was scrambled into nonsense Latin sample text about 500 years ago.

"Greeking" is an Adobe InDesign (and PageMaker) term which means to NOT draw text characters accurately on the monitor screen; instead painting a gray bar where the text would otherwise be. You see this effect whenever you zoom out and the page design becomes so small that there arent enough pixels to describe the individual letters.

Illustrator inserts a much smaller amount of Lorum Ipsum text. It will repeat itself pretty soon if you try to make it fill a great volume of text area. InDesign has a larger volume of actual Latin text to insert. Both ID and AI can have a custom placeholder.txt file copied into the application folder in order to make it use a text of your choosing. I made my placeholder text to contain an English-language version of Cicero's famous writing. Sometimes in the past I have used Charles Dickens text from "A Tale of Two Cities" as familiar sample text. No matter the text chosen, I use English sample text so that the spell-checker doesn't create a sea of red squiggles on the monitor screen.

Hold the cmd (Mac) or ctrl (Win) key down when selecting the fill with placeholder text command. Choose whatever you want from there.