I drew a silhouette (a moving dog), turned them into paths, and did compound path &gt; expand to be able to fill the inside with the text I want. Because part of the legs cross over, it is actually two paths - the outline, and the second part of the outline that cuts out the space where the legs cross over. I need the text to all stay readable and not get cut off. How can I make this happen? I've tried excluding and minus front, but it makes it so I can't fill the path with text. ( You can see the two middle toes touching, this is how my art is. So the area here is cut out, and I do not want text to go there) Thank you!
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I am trying to create a logo where a text is inside a shape that has holes, but I want it to be within the shape, including the eyes and teeth. The eyes and teeth are just filled white here and the client doesn't want any words missing.    I cannot figure out how to do so. Maybe I can space it in such a way?
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I'm new to Adobe Illustrator and I wanted to accomplish this task. How do I remove the inner lines in my drawings? I tried with all the pathfinders effect but it keeps removing my tangent lines (the lines connecting both my circles).    It works like a charm as I followed the selected's answer guide:  Here it is.
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this is a problem I face a lot when working with branding and typography. After importing vectors/typing, extruding and bending (simple deform or curve modifiers) it always come up with those ugly polygon artifacts:    Now, I know the cause of this is that the front faces of the text do not have the right topology nor enough polys to bend.  So, is there a good workflow to get rid of this without taking a huge load of time to retopo by hand or using the remesh modifier to an absurd high poly count?  Thanks
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I am trying to make something similar to this?  Obviously it's possible to make it manually piece by piece, but I am looking for some kind of automated feature in Illustrator to achieve this?  Is this possible?  Thanks man in advance!
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I have a long and complex document that I want to render as a minimal outline only, without the body of the text. What is the best way to do this?  What I have tried so far is to save a version with titles only, and no other text. This does not work though. The outline gets caught off.  To try and solve the problem, I made a test file like this:  \documentclass{article}  \begin{document} \section{Foo} \subsection{bar} \subsection{bar} \subsection{bar} \section{Foo} \subsection{bar} \subsection{bar} \subsection{bar} [... eight more sections ... ] \end{document}   The output from this is a two page document, the first page of which is blank. On the second page, the outline appears, but it runs right to the margin until it gets cut off.  Adding a little bit of filler text to each section solves the problem. But without doing that, how can I get the output I would expect?  EDIT: I've edited this to emphasize the specific practical objective I am trying to accomplish, rather than the technical issue of empty sections which is covered .
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In Illustrator, how do you align text in the exact center of a shape for example without creating outlines. If I go to center text using the align palette, Illustrator aligns the text to it's bounding box.  I know you can create outlines, but I want the text to remain editable in case I need to make changes later.  Any thoughts?
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In the image below you'll see the white section (highlighted blue). The black section behind it is one path, and the white another. How do I remove the white from the black so it becomes transparent? Hope that makes sense &lt;3
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I have the following image with written text over it. The image is a flat .jpeg, so I don't have access to the layers:  Click image for full resolution As you can see, the written text (&quot;SPACE&quot;) is quite big. My question is: are there any effects/anything I can do in order to remove the text and still keep the background? Or at least hide it a little bit more?
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How can parallel lines elegantly be added to an existing path? I am looking for a solution or hint to, how a general style can be made, that works with any path.  Example path:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}   \draw (0,0) -- (1,1) -| (2,2) -- (3,2) -- (3,1); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}     Same path, with customizable extra lines:    Here I have drawn two extra lines, just to show, what I mean. Ideally a solution should only add one extra line, but somehow be expandable to any number of lines.  The question: , where my solution is less than elegant, has inspired me to ask this question.
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I have some text. I changed it to outline. Drew a rectangle on it. Selected all and then pathfinder->minus front. I got a weird result. How can get my desired effect in this way?
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In Illustrator, if you want to fill in areas surrounded by multiple line segments, you can first select all the line segments and use Live Paint Bucket (K) to fill the color. However, if you want to change the opacity of the area, you may find the borders also become transparent, like this:  My question is, is there any way to avoid the border changing its transparency when we change the transparency of its internal area?  Note: there are 3 line segments, with endpoints connected. An extended question, what if one of the line is dashed? This question originally comes from the fact that I want to fill the triangles as the bottom figure shows.
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How could I mix rounded and square caps in one single path in Illustrator? For example, I need to make a rounded cap on the starting point and a square one on  its end? See the screen capture underneath.
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Newbie to blender here. I'm trying to take a curve or traced object and essentially make it wider all the way around. I'd also like to do the same, later but make the same object thinner all around. I'm trying to make a cookie cutter for my daughter and I want to make the object below porportionally wider, then drop a copy of it (only thinner) on top and join the objects together, this will be the "stamp" or cutting edge. Am I thinking about this correctly?      I'd like to make the copy of this object much thinner and drop it on the top.  Thanks in advance!!!  which vertex are you referring to?
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How do I confine text within a shape such as a circle or triangle?  I don't want text along the perimeter, I would like it to break appropriately at all the inner edges.
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I just ran across this, and I'm curious about whether it can be replicated in TeX...    Ideally one would have the spiral getting tighter and tighter as one got to the centre, as in    I know TikZ has the ability to fit text along a path, but I'm not sure how one might make text get smaller and smaller.  The closest I can find is , but that uses manually inserted font commands.  Edit: I got what I wanted using mwibrow's answer:
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I am working with a pretty complex traced AI that I received, and I want to basically make it so that all the visually black stuff is shapes, and all the white outlines (invisible here) are removed. Most of the spaces when a line crosses over another is created by a white outline.   I know about expanding appearance and the pathfinder tool, but because there are so many lines that are crisscrossing, I haven't had an easy way of minusing the fronts away. I could expand appearance and sort every object carefully, but I feel like there may be a quicker way of doing this.  If I put it in Photoshop as a smart object in 'screen' mode, it looks right.. I could put that back in Illy and trace it, but I don't want to complicate the paths.
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I drew paths thinking i was drawing a shape but later realized it is only a path. Now i could create a temporary shape like a box and paste this in and delete the box path. But just as there is a option to convert path to selection, is there an option to convert the selected path into shape?