To create outlines in Illustrator, select the object, open theStrokemenu and increase theWeightvalue to apply the outline. Continue increasing the weight until the outline reaches the desired size, then choose rounded, squared or beveled corners from the menu dialog. The following video tutorial wi...
You can enable theReal-Time Drawing and Editingfeature to enhance the live appearance of objects when you work on them. To enable this feature: [Windows] ChooseEdit > Preferences > Performance > Real-Time Drawing and Editing. [macOS] ChooseIllustrator > Preferences > Performance > Real-Time Dr...
If you want to use the current color in the Stroke box, you can simply drag the color from the Stroke box onto the object. Dragging does not work on Live Paint groups.Convert strokes to compound pathsConverting a stroke to a compound path lets you modify the outline of the stroke. For...
Use the Crop Tool to delete everything outside the mask Before you use the Crop Tool, make a duplicate of the whole pattern (so that you can retain the original) and convert all strokes to outlines: Object/Path/Outline Stroke. This is an important stage because the Pathfinder ‘Crop’ t...
It's often handy to use Ctrl/Cmd+Y to switch briefly into Outline mode, which might reveal a bunch of objects that were selected unintentionally. Sometimes it's useful to turn ON the preference for "Object Selection by Path Only." This requires more precise targeting, but makes it easier...
Now, the short red stripes are only visible on the outer green border as an extra detail in our Illustrator outline text effect (2). Step 4 Copy and Paste in Place (Shift-Control-V) the “Noel compound path” again and give it a 1 pt white Stroke. Next, go to Object > Path > ...
Yeah I would understand the small gap better if I actually had the stroke on the outside of the text because I can understand that it might render the text and the thin outline and since the outline is one px it could cause an issue by the anti aliasing us...
How to outline text in Illustrator with overlapping letters How to add an outside stroke to text in Illustrator If you need step-by-step help onhow to convert text to outlines in Illustrator,follow along with us over on ourEnvato Tuts+ YouTube channel: ...
– and maybe you will want to change the indents for your basic lists anyway. Just like InDesign, Illustrator uses Left Indent and First line indent for the positioning. You can use negative indent values to move your bullets (and even your text) outside the text object bounds (Figure 6...
Note that any paths that were opened up by this process have been automatically closed, leaving a stroke in place. If you don’t want to retain a stroke, you’ll need to convert all strokes to outline paths before cropping the item(s). You can find this underObject/Path/Outline Stroke...