"create outline" not what it used to be

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
May 16, 2019
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It's been awhile since Ive had a fresh version of Illustrator and when you selected text and created an outline, you were given many anchor points to manipulate text. However now, it only gives you the major angles, thus not a lot of wiggle room for text distortion. Any way around this?

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barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

The number of points depends on the font; some require more points than others. If needed, you can add points with the Add Anchor Point tool. Simply click in between existing anchor points to add a new one.

bjs314

Participant

No one has time to do this. LOL Imagine producing a 300-page annual report and then adding points to every font that looked odd.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

I hope you are not producing your annual report in Illustrator.

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

I'm not sure what you're talking about. The screen shot below shows three different types of type fonts converted to outlines using Illustrator CC 2019 (23.0.3). It looks to me that Illustrator has converted the text with as many anchor points that I would expect to see. Can you show examples where you don't think that the necessary anchor points were created?