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I'm Trying to do some different practice logos. Well I'm completely baffled after googling, and practicing but I am unable to create striped text much like see in IBM Logo.
Any Help would be greatly appreciated.
Steps:
Created text
Created bars (also tried with line tool to no avail).
I then selected both (all)
pathfinder - subtract.
Here is what looked like once select everything
This is my result from pathfinder / subtract.
I've tried creating text as outlines which after reading found out will not work. As mentioned tried pen tool, thich and thin weight lines.This seems like simple task and for whatever reason I cannot get it to work no matter what. PLZ help feel foolish can't do simple pathfinder step lol
Thanks
Alt (Option) click on the Minus front icon.
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Booda,
What happens if you
A) Create the live Type, then create the bars to knock out as black fill/nostroke rectangles (long enough), then select everything and in the Appearance palette flyout click Make Opacity Mask with both Clip and Invert Mask ticked?
B) Create the live Type, then create outlines, then create the bars to knock out as rectangles (long enough), then select everything and Pathfinder>Minus front?
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If you want to do this using the Pathfinder it's a matter of using expanded lines and compound paths. See screen shot:
In the first picture I made the text into outlines and also made it into a compound path (Command-8 on Mac Control-8 on PC). In the second picture I created and placed lines that I then expanded into paths (strokes will not work, they must be paths) and made all of those into a single compound path (they are colored red just to make it more clear) which I sent to the front. Then I selected all of this and used the Minus Front Pathfinder option (highlighted) and got the result shown.
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Bill,
I had some success but as before whenever created outlines I'm getting same effect. Only the first letter. Maybe I'm missing step.
Create text
converted to outlines
created line (stroke =2) solid fill / also tried outline
object / expand (lines)
placed over my text.
WORKED - kind of.... only does one letter rest is missing. So strange
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The step you're missing is making the text a compound path.
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Bill,
Your right, I did forget the compound path on text.
I needed to walk away, start fresh and sure enough I got exactly result I needed (as well as method from Ton).
Bills method - create text to compound path
Bottom - Tons method basic text+bars --- alt+minus front
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You can still keep the type editable if you group the lines, than add the type to election & click make mask
Then flip checkmark settings until you get what you need
There are a few hurdles you might encounter if you make type outlines and pathfinder, which the explanation would get lengthy.
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Mike
Definitely on right track. I thought this was simple as place txt, place bars, then minus front.
However I did get to work with some letters chopped off.
I'm going to reboot computer, Walk away and practice some more later. Lol.
Thank you, and everyone else for the help. Try later tonight and start fresh :}
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For my part you are welcome, glad you got this working.
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You don't need to create outlines for your text.
Create your text.
Create the stripes from rectangles on top of the text.
Select all
Alt-Click the Minus Front icon in the Pathfinder panel to creat a compound shape.
Text and stripes will be editable.
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Ton,
That's what I thought, I was doing exactly that (leaving text as is) and not converting to outlines.
created text
created bars
pathfinder minus front (even changed layer order)
result....
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Alt (Option) click on the Minus front icon.
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Ton,
Thank you VERRRRRY much. All I had to do was to Alt+minus front on pathfinder and it worked.
created text
created bars
put bars at top of layers panel (not sure if mattered)
select all
alt+minus front and that did exactly what was trying to do. Geez couldn't wrap head around why seemed easy and couldn't figure out how to get to work.
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Glad you got it solved.
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Happy to help.
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