Text with smaller line than 0.25 for repainting by hand?

[Holger]

(because of my lack in technical phrases in English language, I'm not sure if my title is correct. I'm sorry for that! Not to mention the grammar...)

Hello,
I would like to print a poem on a blank page using a vintage font in order to trace (repaint/overwrite) the printed text later by hand with any calligraphic pen.
After this process, the printed lines shall be completely repaintet, no longer visible and so the page will look like completely written by hand.
Is it possible to format a text with a really small stroke width, so it is after printing barely visible and can easely be traced and covered with a black artist pen?

I alredy have tried the following:

• write the text
• convert to ediable shape
• assign a stroke width

But oviously the result can't have any stroke width smaller than 0.25. And this is thicker than the original stroke width the font alredy has.

Is there any way to create a kind of template of a text, that is thin enough to be overpainted (overwritten) with a pencil, so the original printed text is not longer visible?
(I hope I could explain my problem in a understandable way...)

Thank you for helping me with this!

Holger

[gwpriester]

Holger - Your English is fine.

This might work. Switch to Outlines view (set the slider to Outlines or Window > View Quality > Outlines).

Make a bitmap copy.

Also you can flop the bitmap copy, print the copy on regular paper, then dampen very slightly the surface you want to paint on and place the printed copy ink down on the damp surface.

[Holger]

Thank you very much for your great help! I will try that.
The way to work with dampened paper only will work with any inkjet printer, or am I wrong?

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Holger,

Text by default has no line width/stroke. Just a filled shape. You can select your text, set the fill to none and stroke to black and set the stroke size to any value you require by typing the required value into the 'Set Line Width' box. No need to convert to editable shapes. I suspect you'll need to test print first to see what is the smallest stroke width your inkjet can produce.

[Acorn]

Holdger, print out your copy and place under the fresh sheet of paper and "trace" it.

Or, convert to editable shapes and give the shapes a line width of 2pt and make the line colour white to get skinny letters.

Or, clone the text and change the top one to white - I still get printable faint outlines.

Or, use Egg's suggestion and change the line style to dashes to reduce the amount of ink form your printer.

Acorn

[Holger]

Wohooo! Many solutions - and they are all great! Thank you very much.