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Ernesto_CH
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November 17, 2025
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Vectorized paragraph/text stroke disappear

  • November 17, 2025
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Hello everyone!

After some research I haven't found a real answer to my issue and I am sure there should be one.

I am currently working in a pipeline with a team where we layout packaging faces in indesign before copy/pasting it to illustrator tracings from the printer/manufacturer.

The issue is that on our layout we have paragraph/texte strokes, bullet points and fonts needs to be vectorized on the illustrator file. Everything works –bullet points are a bit tricky but it is manageable– aside from the paragraph strokes who dissapear once we hit the vectorized command. 

As we have paragraph styles and paragraph strokes setting, spacing, offset, etc. Regular strokes are not an option. We have too much files and faces to deal with it manually.

Therefore here is my question: Is there a clear solution to have text/paragraph strokes vectorized ?

Thank you very much
Have a nice day!

Correct answer BobLevine

The answer stands. Do it in Acrobat.

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BobLevine
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Community Expert
November 17, 2025

Why not just do it in Illustrator?

That obvious question out of the way, the only "right" way to do this is to export a PDF from InDesign and open that in Acrobat. Use the tools there to outline the text.

Ernesto_CH
Participating Frequently
November 17, 2025

Thanks for your quick answer
Everything was done on indesign since it's easier to manage text editing and unfortunately we won't and can not challenge the workflow, which works great –apart from this issue.

BobLevine
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BobLevineCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 17, 2025

The answer stands. Do it in Acrobat.