I’m not going to get into the details of this dialog box here (hey, there are good books that cover that kind of thing!), but instead just tell you to turn on the Convert All Text to Outlines checkbox. To do this, you’ll need a custom flattener setting, which you can create by choosing Edit > Transparency Flattener Presets.Ĭhoose High Resolution from the Transparency Flattener Presets dialog box and click New (which creates a duplicate of the currently-selected preset). Instead, use InDesign’s transparency flattener to convert the text automatically for you when you export a PDF. Here’s the whole tip in a nutshell: Don’t use Convert to Outlines at all. I first learned this from Branislav Milic, who demoed it to a jaw-dropped audience at an InDesign conference a couple of years ago. We’ve mentioned it before, but it’s time to put it in a post. All kinds of stuff disappears, and that’s not good.įortunately, there is a better way to convert text to outlines. Specifically, paragraph rules (rule above/below) disappear. Nevertheless, some people do want all the text converted, and they find themselves up a creek because Type > Create Outlines doesn’t always give them what they want. Why do so many people want their all the text in their documents converted to outlines? Don’t answer that I’ve heard the reasons, and they all make me sad.

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