Outlining text in illustrator

Hi- I want to outline text like in the photo attached so the outline is to the right- appearing to be behind the text. I also would like to know how to drag out the L in 'Lounge'- any help would be great- thank you!!

To extend the L, draw the extension with the pen tool, covert the L to outlines, then use pathfinder to combine the shapes. For the shadow effect, first add an outline behind the word, same color as the background. Then put a copy of the word behind the original word, and recolor it.

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How to outline text in illustrator scripting

I want to create storke in text in illustrator scripting and found one method too createoutline(),But How i used this method for text outline.

var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var colorForText = new CMYKColor();
    colorForText.black = 0;
    colorForText.cyan = 0;
    colorForText.magenta = 0;
    colorForText.yellow = 0;
var colorForTextOutline = new CMYKColor();
colorForTextOutline.black = 100;
colorForTextOutline.cyan = 0;
colorForTextOutline.magenta = 0;
colorForTextOutline.yellow = 0;
var outlineSize = 5;
for (i = docRef.textFrames.length-1; i >=0; i--) {
    for (j = 0; j < docRef.textFrames[i].words.length; j++){
        docRef.textFrames[i].words[j].filled = true;
        docRef.textFrames[i].words[j].fillColor = colorForText;
var outline = docRef.textFrames[i].duplicate(docRef, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
    for (h = 0; h < outline.words.length; h++) {
        outline.words[h].filled = true;
        outline.words[h].fillColor = colorForTextOutline;
        outline.words[h].stroked = true;
        outline.words[h].strokeColor = colorForTextOutline;
        outline.words[h].strokeWeight = outlineSize;
//docRef.textFrames[i].createOutline();
//outline.createOutline();
createOutline(); converts live text to outlines, if you are trying to just create a stroke you have to go about it a different way. This script will take the text and copy it, put it in back, and put a stroke behind on the behind text so it has an effect similar to an offset path. The way I have it leaves the text live, if you were wanting to convert the text to outlines as well I left that part written in the bottom of the script. There is also a StrokeJoin parameter as well.
Hope this helps!

Random character appears when outlining text in Illustrator CS4 !!!

Hi All,
Firstly, any help would be greatly appreciated.
My problem is shown below, I have an artwork containing live text produced in Illustrator CS4 on a Mac. On outlining the file for forwarding to prepress, a random "D" appears at the end of one of the sentences. I have been unable to find any reason for this. The "D" is not visible when the document is viewed in Outline Mode, it is not visible when hidden characters are shown, it cannot be selected using the text cursor, it appears regardless of what typeface is used, and there are no effects or transparencies applied to the text. Obviously this is of great concern, we produce artwork using live fonts, and on approval outline the files and forward them to a prepress bureau, the result of random characters appearing on printed material could prove very costly.
If the Illustrator document is saved as a CS2 compatible file from CS4, opened in CS2 and outlined this does not occur.
Thanks,

Same thing here, but in CS3. Files came from a client, but appear to have been created and saved in CS3 also. I couldn't fix it with CS5.
In our case, it's a phantom W that sits on its own line before another W. No hard return, no soft return, no spaces, nothing shows with invisibles on. You can select it (using the shift and arrow keys) and format it, and the changes show up when you outline it. Select it and type a different character, and it winds up on the next line next to the "real" W, as it should. Double-clicking the word selects the phantom letter as well.
Type is area type, and it's rotated 180° (packaging). Original fonts were Trajan Pro and UniversLTStd.
Anyone?

Can we stop Illustrator from outlining text in a PDF?

I've opened a pdf and get the following message, "To preserve appearance, some text has been outlined", that's it. There's no other errors. I have all the correct fonts and most of the pdf displays correctly. But every few lines or so there's a line or even just a couple of words that have been outlined by illy. This results in the text looking slightly bolder than the surronding text. I could just delete the outlined text and rewrite it, but since i'm updating just the address on about 20 product brochures I find it a massive inconvenience and a huge waste of time.
Any ideas?

The OP assked a reasonable question and the internet often hides intent.
So they did not realize it is hard for those on this side does not know the circumstance on their end withou them defining such condition.
But I will make a suggestion. It might be worth a try. Tell your superiors there is no way to opeen the file without the text being outline. Don't tell them you can replace the text' just that the only way to open the file without the text being outline is to buy the original app.
The worse they can tell you is to replace the text
and best is they might break down and not be so cheap.
And please don't get angry those people here on the forum who are taking their own time to help you.

Converted outlined text not distilling properly

I'm not sure if this is an Illustrator issue or an Acrobat distiller plug-in issue or even a font, if someone can shed some light I would be so grateful.
I'm using the Mac CS3 design standard suite and the type family I'm using is Avenir on my MacBook Pro at home and a CS2 on a PC at work and the same issue happens on both platforms.
My newspaper only wants ads that are saved is a press optimized pdf with all type made into outlines.
When I view the text conversion in Illustrator's preview mode, all the text look accurate; all the I's and L's are outlined rectangles.
When I save the file as a pdf, with the press optimized setting and then view it in Acrobat, the I's and L's looks strange. When print to my proofing laser the kerning between the any i or l character is increased.
I will open this pdf in Illustrator and turn on the preview mode, Inotice that the I's and L's are no longer outlines but are now are two points (a vector stroke).
Any users out there have a solution other then manually creating I's and L's with the rectangle tool?

I outline text by highlighting the text and then select the Create Outline command under the Type pull-down menu. Never thought of flattening - the document only had two text blocks on one layer on top of a layer that had a placed tif image and a logo (that was completely vector art); I usually only use the flattening command when I use the transparency filter.
Thanks for the tip Wade, I'll try the Flattening with outline stroke checked first and see if that works.

Trouble with outline text in photoshop - Ctrl + shift + O

Hello,
I am having miscommunication with a client, who is a chinese manufacturer printing plastic cards for me. The manufacturer is requesting I "outline" my text and send over as layers in photoshop, and suggests using "ctrl+shift+o" to solve this issue. This command does not work, and the only suggestions I find online tell me to either outline the text so they only have outline and no fill color, or to convert to a shape.
I would appreciate any and all help. Please please advise!

I think he is trying to avoid that you used a font that he does not have on his machine or to avoid copyright issues.
Maybe he is confusing with Illustrator that has the possibility to Outline text.
Anyway the nearest you can get in Photoshop is to convert the type to shapes. The text is of course no longer editable but it will print at optimum resolution.
I suggest you duplicate the text layer first as a backup in case you should edit the text later on.

Is there a way to convert outlined text back into live text?

I have an Illustrator CS3 doc in which all text has been converted to outlines. (I wish I had an intelligent answer to the question of why I don't have the original doc with live text, but...) I remember seeing a post some time ago that explained how to change the outlines back into live text, which may have involved making a pdf or something, but I can't find that post anywhere in the Adobe forums. Does anyone know how to do this, if it can even be done? Thanks!

I had to test it. Yes, you can use Acrobat Pro to OCR the text. First you'll need to rasterize the outlined text in AI (at 300dpi bitmap) and save as PDF. Then open in Acrobat and go to "Documents>OCR Text Recognition" to convert the image to text. Click "Edit" in the "Recognize Text dialog window and select "Formatted Text & Graphics" to view only the text in Acrobat. Save and re-open in AI. The text will be editable, but broken into individual words. You can cut multiple words to the clipboard then click with the text tool and paste, to merge the text into a contiguous sentence, but you'll lose the spaces. Exporting as text from Acrobat may be a better route.

Can i copy text from illustrator to indesign and retain attributes

Hello,
I received an illustrator cs3 file that I need to convert to InDesign cs3.
Is there a way to copy the type that is set in illustrator to indesign, while retaining the attributes. I need to be able to make changes on the type in indesign, so converting type to outlines isn't an option.
Thanks!
T

Even though you can change your InDesign preferences for Clipboard Handling to allow formatted information to be pasted into InDesign from other programs, unfortunately Illustrator still won't allow you paste in text with formatting. This is due to how Illustrator and InDesign handle text differently. Even if you copy the text from Illustrator and paste it into a program like Word, which has a lot of different ways to handle formatted text, Illustrator just treats text differently than other Adobe applications.

Ungroup text in Illustrator?

What is the purpose of ungrouping text in Illustrator? Once the text has been ungrouped, can it be reverted back to text?
Thanks.

superstar,
Presuming you mean Type>Create Outlines, there may be a number of purposes, some of which may be fulfilled by using Effects; Outlining is sometimes done unneeded.
Among purposes are avoidance of editability and/or licence agreement violation.
When performing any destructive/irreversible act, you should keep a copy of what you have (by then had, so you will still have it).

Outline Text as editable Text

Is there any possiblity to convert "Outline Text as editable Text" in illustrator?

Short of retyping, no.
If there is a lot of text, you might consider an OCR program.
If you have Acrobat, you can try its rudimentary OCR capabilities. Rasterize your text (using a sufficiently high document raster effects resolution setting), save a copy with PDF compatibility, then open it in Acrobat. Go to Document | Recognize Text Using OCR | Start. Don't expect an exact typeface match.
Copy the text in Acrobat and paste in Illustrator.

Letter-Spacing is different if I open my file at another Mac of us (Value is at both mac 0, but the text is longor), and if I cklick into the text-box, Illustrator says that the file was made in an other Version of Illustrator. We have on all macs the sam

Letter-Spacing is different if I open my file at another Mac of us (Value is at both mac 0, but the text is longor), and if I cklick into the text-box, Illustrator says that the file was made in an other Version of Illustrator. We have on all macs the same system, os 10.8.3, cs6 and UTC4. And of course we`re using exactly the same font....

Packpool,
I believe the first thing to do is to update to 16.0.5.
Adobe - Illustrator : For Macintosh

Outlined text to editable text...

Is there a better way to convert outlined text to editable other than Acrobat Pro OCR?

Acrobat OCR is quite capable nowadays, but if you're dealing with challenging templates it's still better to use highly specialised OCR programmes.

A problem highlighting/selecting text in Illustrator CS3

In several instances I can't highlight text to copy or to edit, other times it works fine. If I click the radio button for the text in layers (other layers may be locked to prevent accidental selection), the baselines appears and I should be able to highlight the text, but I can't. If I highlight some other unaffected area of text successfully (unlocked layers), sometimes it will allow me to select the problem text directly after. Then it will go back to being a problem, why?

I'm using the general text tool, I've locked the other sublayers to avoid accidentally selecting those items. Then I click the radio button on the sublayer I wish to edit or copy, which reveals the baselines. Then if I click within that object to highlight text with the cursor, the text tool creates a new textbox/sublayer and does not highlight the text I intended.
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Can Flash export VECTOR or outlined text in PDF,Ai or EPS?

We have a web based flash interface that allows customer to
design a custom product online. The problem is that the flash then
creates a PDF and that PDF never ACCURATELY matches what the
customer designed in the flash application. The line and letter
spacing is always off. I think the problem would be fixed IF we
could create or export a PDF or a Ai file or a EPS file from FLASH
that did NOT have the editable text. At the moment of EXPORT it
needs to convert all text to vector or outlined text. That would
alleviate the FONT problems. Does anyone know of a plug-in or some
method for doing this?

Why do you want to change it to a png for placement? Just place it as the original .ai eps file you got. You never want to use a jpg, png or gif in a document that's going to be printed. The minute you change it to a png or jpg you're going to lose resolution. That's why it's pixelated

Creating Outlined Text in Pages 09

Having read the manual for Pages 09, i've learned how to create Outlined Text, but i want to know if i can keep the colour of the text as it was before creating the outline. For example, a black bold headline with a red outline? Instead what i get is just a black outline with the colour inside clear.

Which problem of misalignment ?
Which problem of multiple objects ?
For the stroke, we may apply bold to the outline text if we want a 'larger' stroke.
You are so biased that you forget that with my "allinPages" soluce, the text remains editable.
With yours, if the text must be changed we must return to the third party tool.
Yours respond to the needs of some users.
My guess is that my soluce responds to the needs of more of them.
The only drawback which I encounters is with letters which join like the m and the p in Sample.
I must add that I deliberately built this example but as I use this kind of effect only for titles, in practice it doesn't strike because I don't use this kind of fonts for such use.
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