My Solution for PDF formatting (Visual Studio)

[DMG]

Hi Folks,

I'm importing the Strange Aeons AP & thought I'd share my solution here for formatting text.

The biggest problem when copy & pasting text from the PDF's is that the line breaks are exactly as per the PDF. So when text is broken into multiple smaller lines to run around an image etc, pasting into RW maintains the line breaks.

So a (reasonably) simple solution I found was to paste the raw text into Visual Studio & let it "fix" the text.

Any modern version of Visual Studio should work for this (I'm using the 2015 Community edition).

1. Create a new Visual Basic Windows Forms project.
2. Add 2 RichTextBox controls & a Button.
3. Create a click event for the button.
4. The click event code:

Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
RichTextBox2.Text = RichTextBox1.Text
End Sub

When you run the project, paste the raw text into RichTextBox1 & click the button. When you do that, the cleaned text will show in RichTextBox2.

You can then select all of the text in RichTextBox2 (Ctrl-A) & paste it into Realm Works & it should have removed all of those pesky line breaks.

It doesn't preserve bolded / italicised text etc, but that's easy to fix up in RW.

Hopefully somebody will get some use from what I've found. It's sure saving me a lot of time!

Cheers,
Jim.