Text excerpt is one of Arbortext IsoDraw’s own formats and therefore differs from the other formats Arbortext IsoDraw supports. It is used for writing the contents of all the text elements in an Arbortext IsoDraw illustration into an ASCII file, which can then be edited with any word processing program, e.g. for translation purposes. The text excerpt of a file can only be used with the file to which it belongs, as it is otherwise impossible to assign to a file.