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Converting a Text Area or Text-Path to a Path

To convert the outline of a or to a , first select the text area or text-path and select the menu item Transform->Convert Outline To Path. The text will then be converted to a of paths where each path approximates the shape of the corresponding character. Converting a text area or text-path to a path allows you to:

Note that you will have to ungroup the paths before you can edit them. If you had a gradient paint text colour, the gradient will be applied to each path. You can however, merge the paths, which will apply a single gradient resembling the original text area (see Figure 8.30).

Figure 8.30: Converting a text area to a path: (a) original text area; (b) converted to a path; (c) ungroup and merge paths.
        
 Image text2patha.png Image text2pathb.png Image text2pathc.png  
 (a) (b) (c)  


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