Converting text to lines

[Ron Duke]

What if you could take a font like Arial and convert the text to lines. Then you could use created brushes to form your text. Is this possible?
ron

[Kman]

Ron, I just typed the text "Arial font" using Arial. Then I did this :
Arrange > Convert to Editable Shapes, then Arrange >Ungroup,
then I clicked elsewhere on the page, then chose the Shape
Editor Tool and clicked on the first letter, "A", in this case.

And I was able to manipulate the letter any way I wanted.

I then made a brush from the altered "A".

Is this what you are referring to ?

Ken

[Ron Duke]

No, but thanks anyway. I would like a function created whereby you could convert the fills that make up the letter into lines, then you could change the lines to any brush you wanted.
ron

[gwpriester]

Ron

Do you mean like a single weight outline?

You can experiment with a 1 step contour then break the contour apart and use one part of the outline.

I will try to do this when I get a chance.

Gary

[Egg Bramhill]

Ron

You can do it after a fashion, but the letter may sometimes have an inner and outer line.

Just type in the text, select the Freehand tool, select your brush from the drop down list and adjust the line width to suit. The cool thing about this is that the text remains as text and as such is editable.

Egg

[Ron Duke]

Sorry I'm not doing a very good job of expressing what I mean to say. Below is a picture of an architectural type font. Directly underneath the black font is a duplicate with the fill set to none and an outline done in a brush. As you can see, there are the lines (outlines) which carry the brush. I don't want an outline of the font, but rather, the font drawn with the brush as I have depicted in the picture on the lower right. Hope that makes sense.
thanks,
ron
P.S. I really was wondering if Xtreme could be programmed to do this. Aside from tracing the font with a line, I don't see how it could be done otherwise.

[Judi A]

I'm a little confused, but would applying a brush to the letter and in the Edit Brush, change the line offset to the right achieve what you want?

[Ron Duke]

Thanks Judi,
But, no, it's still a double line and the editing tool won't quite let you overlap the two.
ron