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Welcome to our first lesson, “Converting fonts to outlines,” brought to you by Printwand.
Our goal here is to prepare this Illustrator 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. So here we’re in Illustrator, and we can
see we have a block of text that’s been typed in. The first thing that we’re going
to want to do is to take our “Pointer Tool,” and that can be found at the top of our “Tool
Bar” here on the left, and we’re going to want to just click on to this block of
text in order to select it. After we’ve finished, we’re going to want to head up
here to our “Menu Bar” and select “Type,” then we’ll go down and select “Create
Outlines.” So what we’re doing here is converting these
characters from a font to an image. That way our printers won’t need the font and your
type is going to load as though it was a piece of art that had been drawn or placed inside
our Illustrator file. They won’t have to have the specific font file; they can use
the document as is and everything is going to print correctly.
Let’s go ahead and save our document in order for the printer to be able to use the
file; we’ll head up to our “Menu Bar” and go to “File,” and then click “Save
As.” And again, our printer doesn’t need any of the fonts and everything will print
exactly as you see it in front of you. So that concludes our lesson about “Converting
fonts to outlines.” Up next we’re going to talk about “Embedding our artwork into
our files.” Make sure to check back often to Printwand
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