What is: Effect > Path > Outline Object & Outline Stroke for?

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April 27, 2012
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They've mystified me since I noticed them.

Lords of Illustrator, forgive your humble servant's blatant ignorance, but searches and experimentation have come up disinsightful (possible a new word) - what do you do with these?

(Right now, I'm making a focused effort to figure out everything I can do with live Appearance Panel effects - the more I know, the better I feel I set up artwork, non-destructively. It's great. Correct Answer will manifest happy dancing.)

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JETalmage

Inspiring

Applying Outline Path effect can also make text wrap work on an open path:

JET

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

Among other things they are useful (and often required) in conjunction with Pathfinder effects.

Are you interested in some sample files for detection?

45634563545Author

Inspiring

Heh, sure Kurt. Thank you for your time. And, just to be clear - what I'm interested most in is dispelling my ignorance. Anything that achieves that is a wonderful thing.

_scott__

Legend

There you go, credits go to Teri then. Pasted the name in my bookmark.

I love the Appearance panel.

A bit of fun just to explore options with it... one circle, then appearance panel.

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

Using an Effect is just a way to nondestructively do the same thing as Object>Path>Outline Object or Outline Stroke. Set up two of the same objects and compare the results.

45634563545Author

Inspiring

Ok.

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