Tutorial
Import a Text File into the Chain of Blocks

You already know how to enter text in a text block by typing. But in many projects, text is written in a word-processing application.

  1. Select the I-beam pointer in the Tools palette.

  2. Click in the text block at the bottom of page 2. An insertion point appears. You import a text file in much the same way as you import an image file.

  3. Choose Import Text from the File menu and double click Summer Article in the Tutorial Folder. The text from the Summer Article document is imported into the first text block and then flows automatically into the second two text blocks in the chain. The text in the middle text block in the chain runs around the edges of the picture block with the baskets photograph. That's because you selected the Runaround Shape option when you created the picture block. At the bottom of the third text block, there is a symbol that looks like an inverted "L." It indicates that you imported more text than could fit in the text blocks. But Sahafi keeps track of the text even though you can't see it. There will be more than enough room for the text after you format it.

  4. Press Command-4 to switch to Actual Size view.

  5. Scroll the spread so that the left edge of the first text block is near the left edge of the document window.