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Creating text outlines - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Creating text outlines
- [Instructor] In an earlier movie, I mentioned that I can't draw very well. Fortunately, we all have a huge library of cool shapes that somebody else drew for us. They're called fonts. InDesign lets you convert any text from any font into editable paths. In fact, there are two ways to convert text outlines, converting a whole frame or converting just some selected text. Let's see it in action. I'll select this text frame and zoom in to 200% by pressing Command or Control + 2. Now, I'm going to double-click on this frame to switch to the Type tool, and I'll select a single character, like this letter U. To change that into outlines, I'll go to the Type menu and choose Create Outlines. But before I do that, I want you to pay attention to the spacing on either side of the letter. There. See how the spacing got smaller? That's because back when this U was actual text, InDesign could kern it properly with the other letters. It was adjusting the space between the two characters based on…
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