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| Phillip Moreau 2003-11-21, 12:04 pm |
| For some reason, when I try using the stroke on text in AI 10.0, unlike
Photoshop, I can't seem to make the stroke go OUTSIDE the letter's borders
exclusively. A stroke of 2pts will have 1pt inside the letter, and one point
outside.
Stroking deforms my font. How do I stroke outside the text exclusively?
Thanks!
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| in article eKBfb.55837$1M6.1040685@wagner.videotron.net, Phillip Moreau at
askme@nospam.com wrote on 10/4/03 8:32 AM:
quote:
> For some reason, when I try using the stroke on text in AI 10.0, unlike
> Photoshop, I can't seem to make the stroke go OUTSIDE the letter's borders
> exclusively. A stroke of 2pts will have 1pt inside the letter, and one point
> outside.
>
> Stroking deforms my font. How do I stroke outside the text exclusively?
>
> Thanks!
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>
I get around that by just putting a copy of the letters UNDER the top
letters... then I do a stroke of the letters that are under ... then I can
make the stroke as fat as I wish.
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Mike
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| in article eKBfb.55837$1M6.1040685@wagner.videotron.net, Phillip Moreau at
askme@nospam.com wrote on 10/4/03 8:32 AM:
quote:
> For some reason, when I try using the stroke on text in AI 10.0, unlike
> Photoshop, I can't seem to make the stroke go OUTSIDE the letter's borders
> exclusively. A stroke of 2pts will have 1pt inside the letter, and one point
> outside.
>
> Stroking deforms my font. How do I stroke outside the text exclusively?
http://www.artistmike.com/VectorArt/1.html
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Mike
* Logo Design *
Put some fun in your next logo!
Site at: http://www.artistmike.com
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| Stuart 2003-11-21, 12:05 pm |
| Add the stroke to the text then use the appearance palette to move it
behind the fill, easy.
Stuart
Phillip Moreau wrote:
quote:
> For some reason, when I try using the stroke on text in AI 10.0, unlike
> Photoshop, I can't seem to make the stroke go OUTSIDE the letter's borders
> exclusively. A stroke of 2pts will have 1pt inside the letter, and one point
> outside.
>
> Stroking deforms my font. How do I stroke outside the text exclusively?
>
> Thanks!
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| arrooke 2003-11-21, 12:05 pm |
| > For some reason, when I try using the stroke on text in AI 10.0, unlikequote:
> Photoshop, I can't seem to make the stroke go OUTSIDE the letter's borders
> exclusively. A stroke of 2pts will have 1pt inside the letter, and one
pointquote:
> outside.
>
> Stroking deforms my font. How do I stroke outside the text exclusively?
>
> Thanks!
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Use Offset Path. There is almost always a couple of different ways to
achieve the same goal.
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| AnnaRita Gattuso 2004-02-10, 8:28 am |
| Strange - in CS, if you double click the 'characters' tab on the
appearance palette of your selected text, you get access to both the
original stroke and fill; but it also applies a Fill effect you won't
want. So the answer is double-click that tab, press control-z (or
whatever undo you use), restoring normal appearance to your letters,
select your original stroke and apply an offset path to it.
This is a very late reply. Sorry if some of you can't see the rest of
the thread.
In article <3F8131BB.30703@nospam.uk>, Stuart <stuart@nospam.uk> wrote:
> Add the stroke to the text then use the appearance palette to move it
> behind the fill, easy.
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> Stuart
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> Phillip Moreau wrote:
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| Stuart 2004-02-10, 10:28 am |
| AnnaRita Gattuso wrote:
>Strange - in CS, if you double click the 'characters' tab on the
>appearance palette of your selected text, you get access to both the
>original stroke and fill; but it also applies a Fill effect you won't
>want. So the answer is double-click that tab, press control-z (or
>whatever undo you use), restoring normal appearance to your letters,
>select your original stroke and apply an offset path to it.
>
What sort of fill effect are you talking about? Do you mean it adds
another fill on top of the
already existing one? Is this while the text object is selected or the
text being edited. CS has
a new type system compared to previous versions, that is why the save
options for the older
versions can be found under legacy.
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>This is a very late reply. Sorry if some of you can't see the rest of
>the thread.
>
Stuart
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>In article <3F8131BB.30703@nospam.uk>, Stuart <stuart@nospam.uk> wrote:
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