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Importing Illustrator artwork

Importing Illustrator artwork

From the course: Creating Icon Fonts for the Web

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Importing Illustrator artwork

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You guys have been really, really patient and so now is the time for the payoff. Now it's time to start taking the icons that we've drawn here in Illustrator and worked on and then moving them and importing them into our font inside of Glyphs Mini. So, all we need to do to do that is really just copy and paste from one program to another which is really, really simple, right. Well, like most things, it's never as simply as it seems. So, I'm going to show you how to ensure that your artwork is going to import at exactly the right size and at exactly the right place. To do that, I have two files opened up right now. I've got In Illustrator, the chunky_mobile file, I'll open up from the 04_08 directory in my exercise files. And in the Glyphs app, I have the chunky_mobile_glyphs file I'll open up from the same directory. And in this case, you can kind of see that we're just sort of picking up right where we left of. We imported the home icon and the search icon in SVG flies. So now we're…

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