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Aligning text to the pixel grid

Aligning text to the pixel grid - Illustrator Tutorial

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Aligning text to the pixel grid

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at how you align texts to the pixel grid. And so notice that I have some live editable texts in the top left corner of this document I'll go ahead and select it with the black arrow tool and then I'll press Control + or Command + on a Mac in order to zoom in, and you can see that in addition to this essential anti-aliasing that's associated with the curved and diagonal edges, we have this unproductive anti-aliasing along the vertical and horizontal edges. Now in a perfect world, you'd be able to align this text to the pixel grid just by turning on that icon on the far right side of the control panel but notice that it's dimmed, and that's because as things stand as I'm recording this movie you can't align editable text to the pixel grid. So what you do instead is go up to the type menu, and choose create outlines, which is going to convert the text to static paths outlines.…

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