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Welcome to our second lesson, “Converting fonts to outlines,” brought to you by Printwand.
What we’re doing here is preparing this InDesign file so that our commercial printer,
or anyone that we’re handing our file off to, can work with the document and not have
to worry about any potential font conflicts. This is accomplished similarly to how we would
handle this in Illustrator.
So here we can see our InDesign file and we have a block of text here that has been typed
in. First what we’ll want to do is take our “Pointer Tool,” this is at the top
of our “Tool Bar” here on the left, and we’re just going to want to click on to
this block of text in order to select it.
So after we’ve finished that, we’ll head up here to our “Menu Bar” and select “Type”
and then we’ll go down and select “Create Outlines.” So what we’re doing here is
we’re converting these characters from a font to an image. That way our commercial
printers don’t need the font and your type loads as though they were a piece of art that
had been drawn or placed in our document. They don’t have to have the specific font
files, they can use the document as is and everything is going to print correctly.
So if we go back over to our “Tool Bar” and select the “Direct Selection Tool,”
and this is located just below the “Arrow Tool.” So we can see now how all of our
text is highlighted and it also shows us what has been converted to artwork. Again, our
printer isn’t going to need any fonts and everything will print just exactly the way
you see in front of you. So this concludes our lesson about “Converting fonts to outlines.”
Up next we’re going to talk about ”Embedding our artwork into our files.”
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