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Outlined Text to Shapes
I am not sure what route to go to make what I am trying to do.
I have text that is converted to an outline. I have created strokes using the appearance technic. I am wanting to have 3 different shapes created from this. First shape is the original text, second shape is the first stroke, and lastly the third shape is the second stroke. When I have tried Objects/Path/Outline Stroke, nothing happens. Am I trying to do this with the wrong technic? Do I want to do this in another way?
Going back a bit….I have seen logos and artwork that have the same shape or object repeated but at a different size to make strokes. When I try and resize an object, it is not even all the way around to make a stroke.
It has been a while since I have used Illustrator and know at one point in time I was able to do this. I hope this makes sense and someone can point me in the right direction.
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In the window panel you can open appearance for adding new stroke to your selection. Another hack for you to achieve this result, select any shape, make a copy with ctrl c and paste above with ctrl f, select the above copied shape and make it black, increase the size a little more than the original font while pressing “alt” to maintain the position, then press “ctrl shift [” to send the black copied shape behind the original font and it will act as a stroke, select both and right click to group.
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