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Text to outlines

Text to outlines - InDesign Tutorial

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Text to outlines

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A common feature of InDesign that they like to ask questions about in the exam is how you can turn text into outlines and then maybe even use them as a graphic frame. So I'm going to show you this in this example and you can open it up, it's called text to image, the InDesign document. So once you have the text frame selected, which by the way is editable text here, all you have to do is to go to the type menu and choose create outlines. The shortcut is the same as the same feature in Illustrator so it's CMD or CTRL SHIFT O and once you do that the text is now more like a vector shape so it's not editable text anymore, we can use the direct selection tool for instance and select any of these points and start moving it around. But what I wanted to do here is to turn this into a graphic frame so all we have to do is to select the image in the background and then press command or control x to cut it out then select the text and then use edit paste into so that's command option or control…

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