Before you outline the fonts, you should first save your file as a separate document.

Designers may not want to share the font.

This generally happens with the files purchased from Adobe Stock/ Shutterstock.

If you receive a file with outlined text, Illustrator may not be able to recognize which font was used initially and you would not be able to edit text if required.

You lose the ability to edit it quickly with the Type tool.

Once text is outlined and the file is saved and closed, it cannot be converted back to Text.

Your text is ready to be edited as per your choice.

Click the Ungroup button in the Properties panel to be able to move the letters independently.

Keyboard shortcut – Win – Shift+Control+O, macOS – Shift+Cmd+O.

Select the Text > Right Click and then Select Create Outlines.

Choose Type > Create Outlines to convert the text to editable paths.

You can also re-shape the text in creative ways.

Occasionally you may find fonts that do not allow embedding, in that case you might have to outline the font before sending it for Print.

By converting text to a vector, it can be printed from anywhere. In some cases, a printer may not have the font which is used in your document.

There are occasions when you are forced to use a commercial printer which requires outlined fonts.

You will be able to open and print your artwork even if you don’t have the actual font used in the document installed on your machine.

Font designers may want to protect their copyright.

Your text will appear smooth and crisp at any size or resolution.

Outlined text can be scaled infinitely without any loss of image quality.It would behave like a shape created by Pen/pencil tool.

Once a text is converted to outline, editing/changing font size is not possible. Wondering what is “Outlined” text? What is the use of outlined text in Illustrator when effects can be applied easily on Live text?Īn outlined text/font is a vector shape, created by tracing the live text.

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