Creating Text for embroidery - requirements please help

[Jose5D10]

Hi,

I have never used Adobe Illustrator - I am more familiar with Photoshop.

I want to make some designs for Hats - to be embroidered by a printing company - they have lots of requirements and I need help please.

I just want to use text but it has to be a certain heigh and width etc.....and I don't know how to do it in Adobe Illustrator.

In this video https://youtu.be/aEfsyYe26Zg?t=158 they explain how to edit the text WILD for 3D puff emboridery but I don't know how they are manipulating the text, they seem to stretch it to increase size but you can't do that with Text?

Can somebody help me - I want the text: EDTECH big stretching as big as possible and then smaller below the words: Vault

If someone can help and provide me with the file and how to do it I would be SO grateful!

It's not letting me upload the .ai file - here is a link: Printful template

Thanks!

[Barbara Ash · Accepted solution]

In the Character panel menu, choose Show Options.

You will see settings for changing height and width of text.

[Jose5D10]

Great, would it be possible for a little more help? Or a link to a video tutorial?

It says how to export only outlines etc.....I don't understand....

Thanks

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

Jose,

To see the actual height/width of the actual letters, you can tick Use Preview Bounds in the General Preferences, and then you can set the desired H (and W if needed) value(s) in the Transform palette; you can hold Ctrl/Cmd+Enter to keep proportions.

Remember to untick Use Preview Bounds afterwards.

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I also faced a new experience of embroidering hat designs in Adobe Illustrator and successfully done it after watching YouTube Tutorials. But I am facing the Text Height and Width changing issue. Thanks to this post that helped me.

[AmirB837]

I did embroidery digitizing for a long time.  Embroidery software is vector-based, like Illustrator.  You're probably going to have to set up embroidery files in Illustrator.  I know that's not what you want to hear, but that's the best solution.