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Creating text outlines

Creating text outlines - InDesign Tutorial

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Creating text outlines

- [Instructor] In an earlier movie, I mentioned that I can't draw very well. Fortunately, we all have a huge library of cool shapes that somebody else drew for us. They're called fonts. Now InDesign lets you convert any text from any font into an editable path. In fact, there are two ways to convert text to outlines, converting a whole frame or converting just some selected text. Here, let's go ahead and select this text from the exercise file, and I'm going to zoom in to 200% by pressing Command or Control + 2. First, let's convert just a single letter to an outline. I'll double-click on this text frame to switch to the Type tool, and then I'll select this letter R. Now let's head to the Type menu and choose Create Outlines. But when I select it, watch the spacing around that letter R. See how it changed a little bit? The space between the R and the letters around it got smaller. That's because back when this R was…

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