Better Group Hierarchy after Create Outlines
It would help my pre production workflow a lot if it was possible to automatically create "separated" groups from text objects when I use create outlines on big chunk of text. For now one text block equals one object. It could be a function allowing me to produce single groups for every line shift for example.
Tom-Kenneth Amdal
shared this idea
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A related request:
Groups Created from Outlined Text Should Inherit Text Object Names
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/50342727 -
Makes it, yes.
There is an existing request that intersects with this one in a sense:
Make option to generate compound paths instead of groups when text is outlined
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/33627964The problem is that groups are ignored completely when a document is imported from PDF. Compounds allow to deal with theses outlined arrays better, because they are treated as a single entity.
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Jan Vork
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When Create Outlines is invoked for a multiline text, the Grouping could be much better.
Currently, when choosing to ungroup the result, every character becomes a separate object.
How great would it be when Create Outlines makes a 4 level Group hierarchy this way:
Text > Paragaphs > Lines > Words > Characters
So 4x ungroup results in separate characters.
3x gives separate words (separator = space), 2x gives separate lines (separator = return), 1x gives separate Paragraphs (empty line / double return = separator).
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Tom-Kenneth, there are several ways to solve this task at the moment.
1. If you select a text object and run Object > Flatten Transparency with a default settings, Ai will break the text into lines.
2. If you need something like words, or individual letters VectorFirstAid paid plugin from Astute Graphics allows that.
3. Free scripts that do the same, but perhaps less reliable in some casesThere is general feature request you might want to upvote instead:
Break apart blocks of text into separate text objects: by lines, words, characters, outlines
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/40953034 -
Faten
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when we create outline the text it will be convert it to the one object and group
we need to convert every word group object not all the text title
to can be flixable manage the typography design
