underlined text in illustrator9

[herengracht]

... does someone know if there's a way to underline text (without drawing a
line by yourself)

[Warren Tryk]

>... does someone know if there's a way to underline text (without drawing a
>line by yourself)
>

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It seems that Adobe's policy (with Illustrator anyway) is to *NOT* allow for
application-applied font treatments (underlining, obliquing, bolding,
outlining, strike-through, etc.) Since no fonts that I know of have an
underline as a part of the fontset, you'll have to manually underline in
Illustrator.

--Warren
Warren Tryk Design
Tumwater, Washington, USA

[Marek Williams]

wt...@aol.com.nospam (Warren Tryk) dijo a todos por la internet:

>>... does someone know if there's a way to underline text (without drawing a
>>line by yourself)

>It seems that Adobe's policy (with Illustrator anyway) is to *NOT* allow for

>application-applied font treatments (underlining, obliquing, bolding,
>outlining, strike-through, etc.) Since no fonts that I know of have an
>underline as a part of the fontset, you'll have to manually underline in
>Illustrator.

Actually, underlining is not a function of the font, but of the
operating system. In Windows the application designer simply has to
enable the system call. Illustrator does not. And those programs that
do, just enable the default underline. In Windows that produces a rule
that is too close to the bottom of the text and too fat. It is
possible for an application to allow the user to specify distance and
thickness of the underline but, as far as I know, only Ventura and TeX
for Windows do so.

But your point is still valid. Underlining isn't needed often by
DTPers and when it is needed, it can be easily done with a manual line
placed under the text.

Now, what we really need is an underline that is not only adjustable,
but which would automatically skip letters with descenders. And let it
skip just right up to the outline of the descender, not just the whole
space the character takes. I need a lot of underlining for the type of
work I do. Just thinking about a feature like that makes me wet my
pants.

Don't reply to the e-mail address in the header. It's bogus. But
I read the newsgroup every day so post here.

[man]

no...for proper typography one does not underline text but for the use of
asthetics or differentiating information. even still one should use
different weights of a font for this. ie. light, medium, bold, black
illustrator's arial is good for this and so is helvetica unfortunately
illustrator does not come with all the fonts for each font family...you have
to buy them from adobe......or you could just draw a line ;)

tracman

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