Align Stroke to Inside doesn’t align to inside of stroke but to inside of counter

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June 29, 2023
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Dear Community,

I create outlines out of type (Type > Create Outlines) and then assign a stroke weight. In the Stroke panel, I set Align Stroke to Align Stroke to Inside. It does that in open line shapes (I, 2, 3, E …) but on any shape with an enclosed form—a counter—such as O, o, e (the upper part of the e) etc., it seems to interpret Inside as: Inside the counter. However, the outline does circumscribe a closed form who's outline it is (if I’d pour colour into the form the outline circumscribes, I’d end up with the proper letter from which it is the outline—which is exactly what happens when choosing to Fill that outline). Now, how do I get InDesing to align the stroke inside the form circumscriped by that outline and not inside the counter? If I’m not clear enough, please have a look at the images attached. In the little hand drawing, 1 is how it looks, 2 is how it should look.

Thanks!

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Steve Werner

Community Expert

If you absolutely must convert text to outlines, follow the advice of Dov Isaacs, Adobe Principal Scientist (retired) who until a couple years ago answered these questions frequently in this forum. The best way is to use an Acrobat preflight fixup:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/why-wont-my-fonts-outline/td-p/10279598

Peter Spier

Community Expert

@Steve Werner I think the fact that the OP is converting to outlines in InDesign implies that he's doing something with those outlines, like applying a color to the stroke. I don't think that can be done directly in Acrobat after the conversion to outlines, but I suppose one could just apply a stroke to the type in InDesign before exporting. That would not, however, solve the stroke alignment problem.

I'm waiting to hear the workflow...

Steve Werner

Community Expert

I wasn't very clear to me what the poster was trying to accomplish. But my main point is that there are many reasons NOT to convert type to outlines and very few good ones.

Since Dov no longer appears on thus forun, I wanted to reinforce that point.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

When converted to outlines, type with counters becomes a compound path, so basically this is expected behavior and the reason that only aligning the stroke to center is viable for type.

The larger question is why you are creating outlines to begin with. You'll probably get a raft of people telling you never to outline type (I'm aware there are some times when outlining is necessary), so more aboutr your workflow might help guide you to a more workable solution.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

I recommend you try this same exercise in Adobe Illustrator.

After converting to outlines, you next might try to select the compound paths and release the compound paths. Now you can set individual paths to inside or outside, and you wont have the even/odd rules interfering.

Mike Witherell

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