Grad' changes direction when converting font to outlines.

The reason why that's occurring:

When you apply the grad to live text (what Illustrator calls a Type object), the grad is applied as if the characters are a single compound path. So a single occurrence of the grad fill spans the whole piece of text.

When you convert the type to outlines (paths), you then have a group of individual compound paths, one for each character. So the linear grad is being applied to each character individually.

To fix it:

1. After Convert To Paths, Ungroup.
2. Object Menu: Compound Path>Create.
3. Re-apply the grad in the desired direction.

To avoid it:

1. Convert the text to paths before applying the grad.
2. Ungroup.
3. Make Compound.
4. Then apply the grad.

JET

Can you please show a screenshot?

Also: please don't use abbreviations.

This is an international forum and some people rely on automatic translation which will fail on abbreviations. Thank you.