Xara X1 Text

[mickx7]

Is there a way to do "Outline" text for an .ai export from X1?

[Albacore]

It will depend on the type of font that is used as some of Xara's font are not recognised by Illy. Just type away in Xara and give the outline thickness that you want and then remove fill colour down on the bottom left of your screen by clicking the grid style box. After that just export as PDF clicking on the Commercial Printing presets that the dialogue box brings up.

[gwpriester]

Since text is outlines, I am not sure what you would gain. When you import the text into Illustrator and switch to Outline View you will see the the text is a filled outline. Just change the fill and or outline.

Here's a tip. Create two versions of the text. Apply an outline to the text, clone the text and remove the outline. This way the integrity of the text is not compromised by the outline.

Gary

[mickx7]

My printer asked me to send the fonts as outlines.
I don't know why.

[Albacore]

The reason he asked to send the text as outlines means that you don't need to send the font to him as well as the PDF file as it may cost you money to do so. Also he doesn't mean the the text as an outline as Gary and I have demo'd he means convert the text to shapes. The way that you do that is to hold down Shift+ctrl+S with the text selected all text will be convert to a graphic and when he opens the file it does not give him a error message stating the "X" font is missing. Also if you miss that there is a tick box with your Export as PDF that will convert text to shapes as well.

[mickx7]

Thanks.............makes sense.
But he only wants .ai files for some reason.