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Containers: Compound paths vs. groups

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Containers: Compound paths vs. groups

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, we're going to take a look at subcontainers inside of Illustrator. Now I showed you sublayers a few movies ago which, as I've said, I don't really care for because they tend to be a little messy. And we saw compound shapes in the previous chapter which are great when you want to mix and match different shape modes such as add with minus front, that kind of thing. But for day to day stuff, it's a question between compound paths and groups. Compound paths are useful when you want a group of objects to share the same fill and stroke attributes, whereas groups are more generalized containers that can hold standard paths, compound paths, compound shapes, and other groups. And so currently, we've got this unstroked text here. Ultimately, however, we want it to look like this so that all the letters are stroked with black or with white in a nice legible fashion so that the strokes don't interrupt each other. And as things stand right now, that's not the effect…

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