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melldclute25
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November 2, 2018
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Indesign CC 2019 - problems with converting text to outlines

  • November 2, 2018
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Hey - I haven't been able to find any topic on the list that matches what I am looking for. Ever since I upgraded to CC 2019, I haven't been able to outline text in Indesign and keep the tabs set up as they were in the document. It winds up messing them up, even though the tabs are set up properly. Is there a setting I am missing? It worked fine in 2018 version, so I'm wondering if this is a bug or if something has changed. Please see the images here for an example:

Before:

After

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Note: I have to outline text as I am exporting files to printers who request them to be outlined. I have also tried to do the transparency setting as described here but it doesn't outline the text at all. https://indesignsecrets.com/converting-text-to-outlines-the-right-way.php

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Correct answer SJRiegel

Even before this bug in CC2019, outlining fonts directly in InDesign was always a bad idea. 
Since your printers insist on outlines, if you can't change printers, do the outlining using the preflight setting in Acrobat after the PDF is made. 
This will preserve lots of text features that get dropped when you outline directly in InDesign (like automatic numbers and bullets, color in text boxes, paragraph rules and text underlines.)

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bodoni
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November 12, 2018

The only issues I ever experienced converting text to outline in previous versions of InDesign occurred with tables — (borders getting omitted) and with paragraph rules being omitted. Now, in cc 2019 — adverse results are random. Some text converts fine. In other instances, whole letter spaces get dropped. Will certainly give the PDF option a try. Thanks for the tip.

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melldclute25Author
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November 2, 2018

Thanks so much! That helped.

Mell

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SJRiegelCorrect answer
Legend
November 2, 2018

Even before this bug in CC2019, outlining fonts directly in InDesign was always a bad idea. 
Since your printers insist on outlines, if you can't change printers, do the outlining using the preflight setting in Acrobat after the PDF is made. 
This will preserve lots of text features that get dropped when you outline directly in InDesign (like automatic numbers and bullets, color in text boxes, paragraph rules and text underlines.)

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