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Convert text to graphics

Convert text to graphics - Illustrator Tutorial

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Convert text to graphics

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Now it's important to know how you can convert text to graphics so for instance if I decided that I'm going to use this text the way it is and I don't want this to be editable anymore I can just go to the type menu and choose create outlines. Once you click on that it will now turn into a group so we can see it here it's a group and it will have each of these characters created as compound parts while if I go back one step we can see it's still an editable text object. The easy way to tell that it's editable is that you will see these baselines drawn under the text so the same thing here with this area type if I go to type menu and choose create outlines the whole thing can be turned into a graphic where each of these letters are now separate compound parts. I'm going to undo this because I want to still be able to edit this text but this one I can turn into outlines the shortcut for this is command or ctrl shift o so that's the same command that we've been using from here it's just…

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