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Managing and packaging fonts in Illustrator

Managing and packaging fonts in Illustrator

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Managing and packaging fonts in Illustrator

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- [Instructor] If you need to collaborate with someone else to create artwork in Adobe Illustrator, you'll appreciate the ability to package files along with fonts. Let's take a look at how to use this feature, and some of Illustrator's other font management features. So here's my Illustrator file, and at this point in my workflow I need to send it along to a colleague to add some artwork, since I have live text here the person who receives this file will need to have these same fonts I used active on their system to avoid any trouble with this file, and to be able to output it correctly. So to package my file I'll choose file, package, and in the dialog box I can select a location. I'll just leave it on my desktop. I can also name the folder. Again I'll just leave it at the default here, and in the options section I can copy fonts used in the document, except for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts. I'll click package, and I get an alert telling me to make sure that I stay in…

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