when working with Adobe Illustrator
it's important to know that the fonts that you have on your particular machine
may not be available
on someone elses machine, so let's say you're going to create
an Illustrator file and you're gonna send it off to
a printer or to a client
or maybe even to a teacher for a class you're taking
and you have two different fonts in use, you have Times New Roman
and then you have a font let's say that you downloaded this is
called things we said from dafont.com you have these two types
in your project but the person who opens your file
if they don't have things we said and it's pretty unlikely that the well
then they're not going to be able to see what this should have looked like
now they will see this because Times New Roman is something that's common on
all machines, so they will be able to see this, but it severely limits
the amount of choices you have in terms of type
if you just stick with those fonts that are available on all machines
so there has to be a way that you can
use custom type but actually have it shown to other people who don't have that type
on their machine
well there is, the first thing we need to do you see what happens when somebody
open a document that you have created
and they don't have the font for it, so I'll go ahead open up
this file that I have created on a PC and on the PC
I created font in the same exact onyx italic
or Onky, or whatever this font is called
and it's not showing up here and it's saying that it's trying to replace the
font
now this font may or may not be available in Adobe Type kit and if you're
working with creative Cloud or Creative Cloud 2014
its gonna try to find the alternative in Adobe type kit
if you're working with earlier versions Illustrator
it'll tell you it just doesn't have this font and that you need to find an
alternate
so whichever version you're working with and whatever you choose to do with
that basically it's saying that it doesn't have it so you're gonna have to find
something else you're gonna have to go find that font and download it
so I'll go ahead and hit close and as you can see
this font turned out just fine because it was made Arial and
Arial is common on all machines, again this font isn't fine because
it's been converted to something else he can see it here so says
on Onky italic, whatever that's called
and it has a little diamond next to it because this is basically saying this is
what the type family was but it's not showing that way because I don't have
have that font on my machine
this one is also created Onky Italic but notice that it's not giving me any of
it's not giving me any of the type tools, because essentially what I did was I took
the font or the text box and I created outlines of the font, so then
essentially it
turned the letters into shapes, now
this is hard because I can't come back in like I can here and change the
word if I want to
so let's say I wanted to change this instead of type to typo
and I can't do that here because now these are just basic shapes
so that's a drawback of doing this, but if you're sending this to a printer
they just want to be able to have your design as exactly as the way you send
it to them
and and they don't want to have to worry about trying to find the same font
some of them won't even accept it, if you're type is not in outlines
so how do we actually create these outlines, what you need to do
as you need to click on the text box
go up to object, sorry type
and click Create outlines, and again that's essentially gonna convert your
type to shapes
now I can take my direct selection tool and I can modify those shapes as needed so
that's a pretty cool feature
but again I can't go back in here and edit this word if I needed to you
now don't always assume that every machine has Times Roman,
Arial, Georgia, Verdana all of those types of fonts
because there could be those random machines who don't have even the basics
so what you need to make sure is if your gonna send this to somebody
for proofing or for printing or whatever
that you need to convert these outlines so again
I'll go to type, create outlines
and again you can tell a difference between regular type and outlines because
the outlines have anchor points just like a regular shape
so if I went back here to this paragraph, again
type create outlines, but this again is hard because it turned them all into
shapes
and I can't come here and edit this if I
needed to, so in general you should always keep
version on your project that doesn't have
type created as outline so that you can edit as needed
and then you would create a version that you would send a somebody else where it
is all created in outlines