today I've got three different ways that you can manipulate an edit text using
Adobe Illustrator that you probably didn't know about already I guarantee
you do not know every single way on this list today and how to edit text in Adobe
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what is that people welcome back to tutorial ethics the home of graphic
design content right here on YouTube so today I have three different ways that
you can edit text using an illustrator you probably don't know about the first
wait edit text in this traitor does revolve around the whole outline
function often we outline text so that we can edit the tags and add effects
however we're going to eliminate the neat outline the text so that we can
actually still change the font and wording of the text itself so to
demonstrate this I'm gonna make a circle by pressing L for the ellipse tool and
then holding down shift was clicking and dragging
if you press Shift + X together the stroke of the circle will flip over to a
fill like so I want to cut text into this circle here with a Pathfinder tool
so we can press T for the type tool and play some text over the shape
I'm changing the color of the text so I can see what I'm doing
we will need to select both the text and the shape and then use the - for an
option in the Pathfinder window but as you can see when I use it nothing
actually happens often what designers will do is to outline the text or expand
it which would allow us to add the Pathfinder effects however this means we
cannot make changes to the wording itself afterwards so this takes from
steps backwards and take a different approach in Illustrator select both the
text and the shape before and then hold down the alt option key and select the
Pathfinder - run option this time you can actually continue to type in the
text section and edit the font the size and even move it around the shape like
so this is non-destructive workflow in Adobe Illustrator next have yet more
ways to edit text in Illustrator that you might not know about
this technique is again a way to eliminate the need to outline your text
we have some tanks in Illustrator we may want to add a gradient fill to it
so let me generate some text to show you guys if I add a gradient to the color
palette you can clearly see the text remains black I'm going to make a shape
to sample a gradient from and if you're finding this tutorial useful be sure to
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so even if I take the eyedropper tool to sample the gradient the tank still
remains black
so instead of having to outline attacks which restrict us from changing the
wording of the text itself go into the Pathfinder window and in the top right
corner select the fly down menu he'd then need to choose the compound path
option
you can now add a grade into the text without it being outlined and of course
you can change the font to anyone you wish this tutorial is enabling us as
designers to add effects to our text without outlining in the text which is
going to restrict us if you take the gradient tool you can also stretch the
gradient across the entire design like so third and finally I've got a great
tip on editing tags for your graphic design print projects this one is thanks
to Joe who is a subscriber and a regular viewer to Sottero graphics the issue we
can have when saving a PDF or print in Illustrator is that the fonts we use we
either do not have a license or more importantly when we send them to the
printer the computer that is used for printing will not recognize the font so
we often outline all the text then save it as a PDF problem again with this is
that you cannot edit the wording of your text after outlining air
and also if I open up the PDF in Acrobat and access the font section and the
Preferences the font is listed here if the printer does not have this font
there's going to be a big problem in printing your design there is a way
around this which I'm going to show you now in Illustrator go up to edit and
transparency flattener preferences click new here and then drag the raster vector
balance all of the way up you also need to check the outline option oh and also
I forgot to say you need to add a relevant name something like outline or
something like that
so now your text is still going to be editable as we haven't actually outlined
the text itself but if you now go ahead and save the PDF you must use the
Acrobat for PDF option and then in the advanced window choose the preference
that you save just now when you export the PDF you are not going to have any
flagged warnings and the PDF would not have funds that another computer will
not recognize so essentially we outline the text without actually outlining it
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