Text looks in curves on stroke, but its still editable

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
June 2, 2025
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When I change the fill to stroke on a word, the text looks like its turned into curves, but its still editable. And because it's Montserrat, its not merged. The thing is that it only start to happen right now. I've been using this document for a couple months and its been fine. Anyone experience some close to this and can help me?

Thank you!

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Hi Joao,

The correct way to turn type into outlines is to select the textframe with the black Selection tool. and then click on Type > Create Outlines.

It sounds like you are saying that you are using the Type tool to select a word and then you are clicking on the Stroke and/or Fill and or Swap Stroke and Fill buttons in order to get the appearance of a black outlline.

These are two very different things. What really are you trying to do and why?

Mike Witherell

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joaomvcanhaoAuthor

Participant

Hi Mike Witherell,

Its not quite that. I upload a screen recordind to the reply above.
Maybe its more easy to understand.

Thank you.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @joaomvcanhao,

Thanks for sharing the details. Could you please confirm the version of InDesign you're using and the details of your operating system? Also, if you could share a screenshot of what you're seeing, it would help us better understand the issue.

I tried to reproduce the behavior on my end, but everything seems to be working as expected. If possible, please share a short screen recording demonstrating what's happening on your side. That'll help us investigate this further.

Looking forward to your update!

Abhishek

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joaomvcanhaoAuthor

Participant

Hi Abhishek, thanks for the fast reply.

Here's a screen recording and software versions.
I want to keep the text editable, but in stroke. Its something really simple, i could not understand its happening.

Software versions:
Indesign version 20.3.1
MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2

Thank you!

_video_01.zip