: Merge Point Text Objects Into One Text Area In Illustrator After importing from PDF I have several single line point text objects which I want to convert to one multiline text area object.

@Jessie844

This other similar QA has an answer that really helped me:


If you'd like to merge broken text while preserving as much of the
formatting, placement, paragraphs and other typography of the existing
text as you can, rather than pasting into a newly created text area as
plain text, you can try John Wundes' amazing Join Text Frames
script.

It does exactly what it says on the tin: it merges snippets of text
into one snippet of text, by making intelligent judgements based on
where they are relative to each other:


It merges adjascent text snippets (e.g. from broken lines of text from PDFs) into single lines, with some control offered over how close
is considered to be the same line.
It merges separate lines of text into one multi-line text object with the text in the right order (top to bottom), fixing broken
paragraphs.
There's then an option to restore the original formatting of all the merged text. This can take a while, but it helpfully gives you
pretty accurate estimates of how long it will take and the option to
skip if it's not worth it.

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@Gail6891361

Ajar Productions has a script called Merge Text that does mostly what you want, except it turns the text into a big point text. You may need to adjust spacing after this tough as the script toolset is a bit simplistic.

Illustrator Praxis has a set of text tools that can do this with a little more work. For one they have a script to turn point texts into textboxes. This script set is a bit more complex but allows for so many more situations such as lines broken by kerning etc.

As a alternate option, Hiroyuki Sato has implemented a nice workaround for situations like this. He has a script called batchTextEdit.jsx that will allow you to conveniently edit the texts as if they were in same textbox.

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