![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are tons of fonts that do allow embedding for print (in that case you may not want to outline the font), but very occasionally you may find ones that do not allow it. Font designers for good reason want to protect their copyright, and there are different permissions that can be set for fonts. These questions all go back to licensing and any licensing restrictions set by the font designer. In Illustrator it becomes a vector shape, not type.īut, you may be wondering why you would outline the font? Why would printers want files with outlined fonts? An outlined font is actually not a font anymore. Okay well, it is really not that serious (if you saved a separate file), but it does give us pause because there is no editing the font text once it is outlined. It is one of those, "hmmm, do I really want to do this” questions graphic designers ask ourselves before panicking about doing something permanent to a design in Adobe Illustrator. Outlining a font is not for the faint of heart. ![]()
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