Help! Outlines effect in Illustrator

[Soma Steve]

I've completely forgotten how to apply the out Illutrator. I don't simply applying a stroke to an objest but the outline effect that has the nice curve/finish and scales perfectly.
Any ideas?

Cheers

Steve

Stephen

www.somacreative.co.uk

[morea]

do you mean to create outlines from text? Select all, then press 'CTRL+SHIFT+O'...

I hope that helps!

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

[Soma Steve]

My original message made no sense at all did it? Sorry about that.

There is a technique of giving an object an outline. It's like an expansion of the original that you can change the colour of.

Stephen

www.somacreative.co.uk

[morea]

Ok, when you selecta vector object you can apply a stroke to it.
Ooh, this is hard to explain.

Check out this image.


On the left is a white object with NO stroke. On the right is a white object with a black stroke. If you select the object, then click on the "stroke color" you can choose a color from your swatches or color palette. Does that help?

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

[Broacher]

I think you're refering to path offset. It's now a removable, editable 'Effect' that you can include in an object style, or as a oneshot deal with Object /Path/Offset path.

[Soma Steve]

That's the one Broacher! Cheers. What the 'Object Style' tough?

Stephen

www.somacreative.co.uk

[morea]

d'oh!

I meant well. /emoticons/dry.gif

I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on disk somewhere.

[Broacher]

I just meant that since Path Offset under Effects is a non-destructive 'attribute' you can now create Graphic Styles that include offset as the whole, or part of the style.