From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
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Outlining type - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Outlining type
- [Instructor] When you send your file off for print, if you're sending the Illustrator version itself and I recommend if you can, send a PDF instead, okay you'll need to outline your fonts. And indeed if you're sharing it with somebody else, if it's an Adobe font that's fine, because they can just sync it. But if it isn't, you'll need to outline it. It's pretty straightforward. All you need to do is select the type you wish to outline and you can either use the shortcut Shift + Command + O that would be of course Shift + Control + O on Windows, or go to the type menu and come down to it just here, create outlines and that's it. It then becomes a set of vector paths and you are not contravening any laws about sharing fonts at all.
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