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Placing and flowing text

Placing and flowing text - Illustrator Tutorial

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Placing and flowing text

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- [Instructor] All right, here's the final version of our document. It's simple, it's honest. And it's copyfit, meaning that every single line of type exactly fits its space, which is something that Illustrator absolutely excels at. So I'll start things off as I so often do by going up to the File menu and choosing New from Template. And then I'll go ahead and load that file RGB with center guides and click New, in order to create a new untitled document. And now you can create some text directly inside Illustrator, if you want, or you can import texts that you've created in a text editor or a word processor, or what have you. And you do that by going up to the File menu and choosing the Place command, where you have that keyboard shortcut of Control + Shift + P or Command + Shift + P on the Mac. And I'm going to navigate to 08_text folder which, right now, just contains a couple of documents. When you see it, it'll…

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