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Convert type to outlines

Convert type to outlines - Illustrator Tutorial

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Convert type to outlines

- [Instructor] For our ACA exam prep, the last thing we need to cover with regard to type is how and when to convert text to outlines. In our file, if you click on one of the letters in Quality Guarantee with a direct selection tool, you'll notice that it's made up of paths, it's not live text. You might want to convert text to outlines like this in things like a logo where you want it to manipulate the letter shapes in ways that you can't when it's live type or if you had to supply the file to someone who didn't have access to the fonts and you knew that the text content was not going to change. That's very important because you can't edit text once it's been converted to outlines. It's just a bunch of vector shapes. I'm going to zoom out, and then back in on the text in the center of the label. Now this is live text, and to convert it to outlines, I could click the button in the properties panel or choose type, create outlines. Now this text no longer requires a font to make it look…

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