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Steve Fairbairn
Steve Fairbairn
Inspiring
January 22, 2011

About the closest you can get in Illie is Copy from a block of text, Escape (to deselect the text box) and Paste. This gives you point text.

badchess
badchess
Participating Frequently
January 28, 2009
Guess I was way wrong. Nice find Murat.
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_murat_Author
Participant
January 27, 2009
I've found the way..using "flatten transparency" command in "object".Thanks...
    NathanDiesel
    NathanDiesel
    Participant
    April 18, 2012

    The Flatten Transparency command works well as long as there are no ligatures in the text. Otherwise, any line of text with a ligature will be outlined. With your text block selected, view the OpenType panel and deselect the first button that looks like "fi" to turn off ligatures. Then, after you have run the Flatten Transparency command to break up the text into point type (make sure to deselect Convert All Text to Outlines), you can select the text to turn ligatures back on.

      SantiagoDiseño
      SantiagoDiseño
      Inspiring
      January 27, 2009
      Try this Script, it makes the trick:

      http://www.wundes.com/JS4AI/displayFilesWTemplate.pl#divideTextFrame.js

      Once downloaded, place the script in the Adobe Illustrator CSX/Presets/Scripts folder. Once copied to this location, the script will appear in the scripts submenu. In Illustrator, go File > Scripts to find your script.
      badchess
      badchess
      Participating Frequently
      January 27, 2009
      You can change the text so that it is no longer text, but there is no easy way to chop up text into seperate units or words.
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