Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
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From: rnpantos@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Roger Pantos)
Subject: Nisus text exporting
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.205436.20141@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Summary: how do you export formatted text?
Sender: rnpantos@watdragon.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 90 20:54:36 GMT
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Hello,

    I was wondering if anyone knows how to do the following in Nisus 3.01:  
grab some arbitrarily formatted text from the text layer and move it to a 
CAD program, while retaining its formatting. (Obviously this requires it 
to be copied to the clipboard as a PICT.)
    
    I've RTFM, and I can't see any way to do it.
    
    (There are those who might be tempted to gleefully point out that "you 
can do it in Word". :-)  This is an option, but as others have pointed 
out, the environment in Nisus is nice enough to make going back to Word 
pretty distasteful. Particularly as I write code in QUED/M, and moving 
between it and Nisus is fairly painless.)
    
    It would be nice if Nisus checked if the text was formatted before 
pasting it into the graphics layer (where "formatted" := more than one 
font | style | spacing | etc.), and pasted it as a PICT if it was. I could 
then copy the PICT from the graphics layer. However, the graphics layer 
seems to accept only raw text.
    
    
    BTW, I notice people mentioning Nisus 3.04.  What are the changes? Is 
there any reason why the "diffs" from 3.01 could not be posted to c.b.m. 
or mailed to me in the form of a PUP 2.0 change file? (I guess I'm 
directing these questions to Jon. (This is what PUP is for, after all.))
    
    All in all though, Nisus is a great product - powerful and cleanly 
implemented. (And if you qualify, a steal for $99 educational :-)
Way to go Paragon!

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