Merging roads with added text

Hello,
I'm designing a map in Illustrator CS5.
Does anyone know of a way to merge 2 paths (roads) which have text attached, so they seamlessly blend together.
I've tried using a compound path but this doesn't work with text added.
I need to be able to easily change the roads direction/shape without having to use different layers.
Thanks.
JS Baxter

An appearance workaround at the group level may help, but without seeing how your roads and type are built cannot really offer any help. Building maps with overlapping graphics all on one layer can be difficult to work with.

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Merging roads with added text in illustrator CS5

Please help,
I need a way to merge roads with text added in illustrator. I've tried compound paths but it won't allow text to be added.
I've attached an .ai file
Kind Regards
JS Baxter

Doug,
With Butt Caps, the strokes of the branch roads will always end inside the through road (if their end points are placed on top of the through road path (Smart Guides say path). And with the second stroke applied at group level it just follows the outer shape as shown in the first OP image. If you hide the Type paths, you can also add new roads and drag them into the basic path group, then create a Type path from a copy.
You can move matching Anchor Points about together.
Adjusting the corresponding Handles is more tricky, but you can:
5) Lock the Type path (group) and drag the Handle of the Road path to the desired position and unlock the Type path (group);
6) Drag over both Anchor Points then drag the Type path Handle to coincide with the Road path Handle (Smart Guides say handle when you are there).
You will probably have to repeat 6) once or maybe twice or more, but it gets easier the closer you are.
Edit: Hi Steve. No frost at night, so I have just stopped carrying our new star magnolia inside every night; now it has a temporary fence to keep the roe deer outside snapping distance.

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Help with adding text please.

Hi- Im new to the forum and even newer to Dreamweaver.
Ive just started putting a site together using a youtube
tutorial which has gone really well. Ive designed my layout in
photoshop, then put it into imageready to edit/slice, saved as
html- then opened with dreamweaver. I found it easy this way, and
rollovers can be made within the html file in image ready.
Anyway- heres where the problems started- Im trying to add
text over on image. The tutorial I went off said to cut the image
from the Src then paste it into the Bg field so that you can type
over it- but it goes nuts! When you enter at the end of text lines
the image begins to repeat itself underneath and white blocks show
up at the side of the image!?
Is there a way to just easily type over on image- i tried
doing this in image ready which works, but saves the text as an
image, but I want the text the be recognised by google- Im
confused- please help.
I was reading about tables and adding the image as a table
background- but positioning the table in the correct place is
confusing too- told you i was a newbie!
Thanks in advance for any help!
Claire

Universal wisdom, except of course, at this NG. :-)
Walt
"Nancy O" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> At YouTube, you get what you pay for. ;-)
>
> --Nancy O.
> Alt-Web Design & Publishing
> www.alt-web.com
>
>
> "Walt F. Schaefer" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> I confess I've never been to YouTube but I don't
think it would be my
> first
>> choice for DW tuts.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Walt
>>
>>
>> "Nancy O" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > Walt is 100% correct. Image Ready code - yuck!
>> >
>> > To give you a basic idea of how to work with
image slices in DW, have a
>> > look
>> > at this page:
>> >
http://alt-web.com/Image-slices-in-a-CSS-based-layout.html
>> >
>> > Also this: Taking a Fireworks (or Pshop) comp
to a CSS based layout in
> DW
>> >
>
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/web_standards_layouts_pt1.html
>> >
>> > If none of this makes any sense to you, start
here:
>> > www.w3schools.com
>> >
>> >
>> > --Nancy O.
>> > Alt-Web Design & Publishing
>> > www.alt-web.com
>> >
>> >
>> > "claire 83"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>> > news:[email protected]...
>> >> Hi- Im new to the forum and even newer to
Dreamweaver.
>> >> Ive just started putting a site together
using a youtube tutorial
> which
>> > has
>> >> gone really well. Ive designed my layout in
photoshop, then put it
>> >> into
>> >> imageready to edit/slice, saved as html-
then opened with dreamweaver.
> I
>> > found
>> >> it easy this way, and rollovers can be made
within the html file in
> image
>> > ready.
>> >> Anyway- heres where the problems started-
Im trying to add text over
> on
>> > image.
>> >> The tutorial I went off said to cut the
image from the Src then paste
> it
>> > into
>> >> the Bg field so that you can type over it-
but it goes nuts! When you
>> > enter at
>> >> the end of text lines the image begins to
repeat itself underneath and
>> > white
>> >> blocks show up at the side of the image!?
>> >> Is there a way to just easily type over on
image- i tried doing this
> in
>> > image
>> >> ready which works, but saves the text as an
image, but I want the text
>> >> the
>> > be
>> >> recognised by google- Im confused- please
help.
>> >> I was reading about tables and adding the
image as a table
>> >> background-
>> > but
>> >> positioning the table in the correct place
is confusing too- told you
>> >> i
>> > was a
>> >> newbie!
>> >> Thanks in advance for any help!
>> >> Claire
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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