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Turning variable width strokes into filled paths

Turning variable width strokes into filled paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Turning variable width strokes into filled paths

It's important to realize that variable widths are really just stroke attributes. They're no different than regular strokes that you apply to your artwork, and from a production perspective sometimes we may think about when we send artwork out to other people to work on, we want to convert all of our stroke outlines to actual filled paths. The reason why we want to do that, especially with logos or artwork that's going to be reused many times, is because when people scale artwork inside of Illustrator they may have different settings for those options. For example, if I go to Preferences here, I'm going to choose Illustrator here and choose Preferences and I go down to where it says General, and again if you're on Windows you would choose Edit and then Preferences. You can see there is an option here called Scale Strokes & Effects, which right now is turned off. That would mean if I took Mister Zee right now and enlarged him to 300%, my stroke weight would not scale along with the…

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