Fonts to vectors

[Xavier Wong]

Hi just playing around with my AI file as I have downloaded non standard fonts, however when I convert the font to "outline" it seems to distort the text and doesnt have the intended clean crisp look. Does anybody have suggestions/workarounds for this, without me having to import the fonts to each different machine I use?

Thanks

Xavier

[Jason Lewis]

Hi Xavier,

Check that the size of your text in illustrator is approximately the
same size in mm as your final design before you outline the font.

Fonts have different shapes at different sizes so that they remain
readable. if you outline a small font then make it larger, you may find
it looks odd at the larger size.

Hope that helps?

Jason

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[Xavier Wong]

Thanks Jason, the text is already at the right size, but have worked out that importing the AI file into inkscape allows a better export to dxf (possibly an AI conversion issue?). Will test this with the laser tomorrow.

Cheers

On Friday, April 14, 2017 at 4:01:15 PM UTC+10, Jason Lewis wrote:

Hi Xavier,

Check that the size of your text in illustrator is approximately the
same size in mm as your final design before you outline the font.

Fonts have different shapes at different sizes so that they remain
readable. if you outline a small font then make it larger, you may find
it looks odd at the larger size.

Hope that helps?

Jason

On 14/4/17 12:26 pm, Xavier Wong wrote:
> Hi just playing around with my AI file as I have downloaded non standard
> fonts, however when I convert the font to "outline" it seems to distort
> the text and doesnt have the intended clean crisp look. Does anybody
> have suggestions/workarounds for this, without me having to import the
> fonts to each different machine I use?
>
> Thanks
>
> Xavier
>
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[Kris]

There's something very wrong with the world when inkscape exports better than illustrator :o)

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[Xavier Wong]

hahaha, lmao. Chances are I'm probably doing something wrong.