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Converting text to path outlines

Converting text to path outlines - Illustrator Tutorial

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Converting text to path outlines

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to add the text on the badge right here, as well as these bars above and below the word sheriff, and that's going to require some additional path building. So I'll go ahead and switch over to my illustration so far, and I'm going to turn off the inset and main star layers, and turn the shapes layer on so I can draw the rectangles that will ultimately turn into the bars. And so I'll go ahead and select the rectangle tools from the shape tool flyout menu, and then I need to make sure that the shapes layer is active in order to draw on it, and I'll go ahead and position my cursor at the intersection of those two center guides, and I'll press the alt key, or the option key on the Mac, and click, in order to bring up the rectangle dialog box. And these are the values I'm looking for, width of 340 points, and a height of 170 points, after which point I'll go ahead and click okay. And now I'm…

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