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Outlining warped text, Illustrator CS
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Yo Yo Yo.....Having a little trouble with a "feature" in Adobe Illustrator CS. At work I have a customer sending me work with the headline being warped around an image, I work in prepress and when sending it to my Neg Printer (AccuSet 1000) I get garbled images, so all I want to be able to do is outline the text where the actual text/image gets outlined, and not the invisible text behind the image (I don't know how else to explain it). Here's a screenshot of what I don't want, basically I want the black type/image outlined
Thanks in advance for any help!
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Have you tried highlighting the text then doing command + shift + o ?
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Have you tried "Expanding" the object first?
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Yes I tried cmd-shift-o but hadn't tried expanding and it work. Thanks a million, this is going to save me lots of "how do I outline it" conversations with the customer. Rock on!
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Originally posted by iREZ:
Yes I tried cmd-shift-o but hadn't tried expanding and it work. Thanks a million, this is going to save me lots of "how do I outline it" conversations with the customer. Rock on!
In Illustrator, whenever you distort live text using an effect, you need to expand it, not outline it. If you were to do type along a curved path, however, you need to outline the text.
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You aren't going to believe this one...
The way you convert this properly in IllustratorCS is...go to Object/Flatten Transparency. In the resulting dialog, make sure "Convert all Text to Outlines" is checked. Click Okay.
Tah-dah!
One of the stupider "improvements" in Ill-CS.
Jim
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Interesting, guess I've always converted to outline prior to outlining text. I do so out of habit, nothing more.
Thanks for the tip and I agree, it's rather odd that it be handled in such a fashion.
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Originally posted by iREZ:
Yo Yo Yo.....Having a little trouble with a "feature" in Adobe Illustrator CS. At work I have a customer sending me work with the headline being warped around an image, I work in prepress and when sending it to my Neg Printer (AccuSet 1000) I get garbled images, so all I want to be able to do is outline the text where the actual text/image gets outlined, and not the invisible text behind the image (I don't know how else to explain it). Here's a screenshot of what I don't want, basically I want the black type/image outlined
Thanks in advance for any help!
In Illustrator CS: Object>Expand Appearance
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