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Using point type

Using point type - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using point type

- [Instructor] Let's get some text into this poster for the Cirque du Steam, and I happen to have a text file just here with some text inside of it. So I'm going to select this first line here and go back to Illustrator and then paste that down. I'll bring that up into position which is around about up the top here, and we'll zoom in on that so we can take a closer look at it. Now I'm going to open up my Layers panel just here and turn off temporarily the visibility of all of the other layers because you need to find out if you do not know already that this is point text in Illustrator. And it's because it emanates from a point. While zooming in won't help particularly, you might get a little bit more of an idea by looking at this anchor just here. So when I hover over it, you can see it actually is an anchor point, and that's why our text is drawn in Illustrator. It's drawn as an object from an anchor point, and it's…

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