Tuto français gratuit : texte en relief avec le panneau Aspect

[didiermazier]

Cette semaine on met le texte en relief toujours avec le panneau Aspect d'illustrator.
La cerise sur le gâteau avant les vacances d'été 2024 : On reprend le travail pour passer de l'ombre portée à un effet de relief sur le texte.
Après c'est rendez-vous le 19/08.
https://youtu.be/oP3WZIu4A-0

[Monika Gause]

The method will give you a lot of issues when your output is not a pixel image.

[didiermazier]

Thanks Monica. Do you refer to an export as SVG or imported into Photoshop? Or maybe Acrobat?

I would be happy to learn from you experience

[Monika Gause]

What the method gives you in any export format (EPS, SVG, PDF, whatever vector format) is this:

And even when you first expand appearance and then unite with the pathfinder (which might even fail, when you have too many steps), you get this:

Sure, that can be simplified and all. But that causes more work and might not give you the precise result you're after.

[didiermazier]

Thanks!

[didiermazier]

I made a test

Illustrator file

SVG file in Chrome… notice the font is not respected which seems normal (Should be vectorized)

PDF file (x3)  with Acrobat… not that bad

 

 

 

[Monika Gause]

Even if you have live text (I outlined it on purpose) - you still have a gazillion text objects and you have sawtooth edges. 

Your print service provider will probably not like such a file a lot. Let alone the person who needs to plot this. 

A lot of (inexperienced) people actually use these techniques to create logos. And then they zoom in and see the edges. And then they ask questions in forums. 

[didiermazier]

You are right. The repeated  1px displacement produce an obvious stairway effect on the shade.

But as an old creative director I would say that the required quality of a design must be "necessary and sufficient" as the mathematical condition.

Even unperfect,  for most of the (bad) cases it would be OK regarding the poor printing quality of the majority of the press.

For the free local newspaper i get in my mailbox it would do the job.

And of course I would not use it for any company identity element and certainly not for the web.

Again thank you for your acuity.

😉