Grad' changes direction when converting font to outlines.

[iBrads]

Hi everyone,

Just come across a problem when converting a font to outline.

The font has the 'appearance' of a coloured linear graduation which is rotated 90° with the font.

When the font is outlined the grad' defaults back to 0°?

Is this a fault or am I missing something?

best regards, Ian

[Monika Gause]

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.

[iBrads]

Hi Monika,

Please find attached image if the problem.

[Monika Gause · Accepted solution]

I see. Thank you.

You could try instead of Text > Outline

use Object > Flatten transparency (check "Outline type")

Worked for me.

But also you can try and report it:

http://illustrator.uservoice.com

[iBrads]

Hi everyone,

Monika has got it right. One command to outline the font and to hold the formatting.

Thanks - this news has now been passed around our studio.

best regards: Ian (SGI)

[renél80416020]

Bonjour,

Graduation -90

[JETalmage]

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