See the offset text plus sign: you can’t print the amount of text in there
Couple ways to handle this
Easiest click on the plus in the overflow flag and draw another text container into which overflow will occur
You can flow text through threading any way you want as you thread together text boxes. You easily layout text to different parts of the page say if you want to include an image on that location of the Artboard.
In the Layer panel you can expand that layer to show all of the objects that live inside of it
Groups are containers so they are expandable
If you aggressively utilize Groups for all of you Objects then even if you did place everything in one layer you can easily pull out group(s) of objects into a new layer.
For each layer you choose a color of the bounding box for when you select something in that layer
This helps you make sense of making selections in a multi-layer document
When you make selections in one layer a little filled square appears on the right side of the layer. If you drag that box into a another layer that will move those objects into that layer.
There are thousands of fonts and yet people are always looking for more
New feature of AI is to access the TypeKit Fonts (TKF)
Adobe Garamond is based on Garamond
Adobe Garamond Premier Pro is based on Robert Slimbach visited a museum, looked at Garamond’s metal punches and type designed, and based on that refined the existing Garamond. That is the difference.
When you convert text to outline you lose control of it as a font but gain more features
Envelope Distort
V
Select Text
Option-Shift-Command-W
Preview On
Now that you converted the text to an outline and modified it with envelope distort you can’t modify it as text but you can modify it using the envelope distort tool itself
Object → Envelope Distort → Edit Contents
Envelope Release shows you the mask because it separates the path and the Text
Say you can’t print to a four color press so you select the object and Expand it. Now as press can handle it. Is this an issue for keycaps?
Now it is no longer text, can’t fix any of it.
Type → Create Outlines : Turns anything into an outline
You can do a lot of things on text without converting it to an outline
But if you are going to press you gotta convert it to outline
