How do I outline Text?

JustinMff02 · June 24, 2011, 6:54am

Easy question (I think), for the 1st time.
How do I put an outline (stroke) on text?

Roberto_Stampini · June 24, 2011, 1:12pm

Hi

Scungyho posted this not so long ago.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17397453/Outline.mov

Bob

JustinMff02 · June 25, 2011, 4:31am

Thanx Bob, but I tried it and failed.
Possibly because there’s no sound.
And TBA wouldn’t let me use my “Brush Strokes to Pencil Lines” tool.

scungyho · June 25, 2011, 5:22am

Justin,
It isn’t the “Brush Strokes to Pencil Lines” command you need but the one just below it, the “Strokes to Pencil Lines”.

I didn’t record any sound for the video. Do you mean you can’t play the movie at all? It is just a Quicktime movie.

-Mark (Scungyho)

JustinMff02 · June 25, 2011, 5:32am

“Strokes to Pencil Lines” won’t let me click on it either.
You don’t have a simple list of the steps, do you?
Perhaps I’m missing something from your video.

TheRaider · June 25, 2011, 5:53am

You have to go to tools → convert–> break apart text first.

I followed the steps required and because of the way the conversion works I don’t think this method is really going to work unfortunatly.

I did it and it ended up warping my text because of the difference in the tools.