Make edge of Text outline the actual outline?

[ericosmosNEW]

When you add a thick outline to text or shapes the actual curve path is still right in the middle of that line. So here is my question:

Is there a way to make the outer edge of an outline the actual curve path?

[G13RL]

You can adjust the stroke position using "Align" in the "Stroke" tab of the studio. In some cases you may need to adjust "Miter" to get sharp corners.

EDIT:

I just realized that the question was for the iPad version, I answered for the desktop version so I don't know if my answer will be useful, sorry!

Edited August 21, 2021 by G13RL
Version error

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, G13RL said:

EDIT:

I just realized that the question was for the iPad version, I answered for the desktop version so I don't know if my answer will be useful, sorry!

Yes, it’s pretty much the same in the iPad version of Designer.

 

[G13RL]

@Alfred, thank you for the precision and the details.

[ericosmosNEW]

Ah, yes. Sure, I know this option. My problem is the following. I want to just the outline of a font (no fill), so the inside is fully transparent. And then I want to give that outline an outline with another color. Problem is, with the above tool I never get the path for the inside and the outside of the stroke.

I can’t use the outline fx because it always rasterizes the font on PDF export.

[Alfred]

10 minutes ago, ericosmosNEW said:

I want to just the outline of a font (no fill), so the inside is fully transparent. And then I want to give that outline an outline with another color.

Duplicate the object and change the colour and alignment of the stroke on the new copy.

[ericosmosNEW]

Yes, with 3 layers I can make it work. Hoped for a simpler solution. But at least a workaround. Thanks!

[Alfred]

On 8/21/2021 at 7:48 PM, ericosmosNEW said:

Yes, with 3 layers I can make it work. Hoped for a simpler solution. But at least a workaround. Thanks!

Why three layers? The example in my previous post uses two: one with the stroke aligned to the inside and the other with the stroke aligned to the outside.

[ericosmosNEW]

Because I want the text to be an outline with an outer AND inner outline. Your example is a text as outline with an addidional outer or inner outline (depends how you look at it), I want BOTH.

Hope that makes sense

[Alfred]

32 minutes ago, ericosmosNEW said:

Because I want the text to be an outline with an outer AND inner outline.

That wasn’t clear from your earlier description! You wrote:

On 8/21/2021 at 6:45 PM, ericosmosNEW said:

I want to just the outline of a font (no fill), so the inside is fully transparent. And then I want to give that outline an outline with another color.

In other words, one colour for the original outline and another colour for the second outline. It seems that you actually want three colours (which, as you observed, requires three layers).

[ericosmosNEW]

Well, kind of...

But I want the inner and the outer outline to be the same color and just the original outline to be a different color as if it was a font designed as an outline which then gets an outline 😄

Like so:

[Alfred]

Thanks for the example! In that case, either ‘Expand Stroke’ and apply a stroke to the result or (more flexible and easily edited) use the Appearance Studio to add the second stroke.

[NotMyFault]

It seems Appearance Studio does not allow to add multiple strokes for text layers. The symbol to add fill/stroke is greyed out.

 

If i convert to curves, i found no way to save an appearance (like a style) and apply it to multiple objects.

 

 

[NotMyFault]

On 8/26/2021 at 4:42 PM, ericosmosNEW said:

Well, kind of...

But I want the inner and the outer outline to be the same color and just the original outline to be a different color as if it was a font designed as an outline which then gets an outline 😄

Like so:

Layer FX Outline could be an option. But this might lead to rasterization when exporting.

[ericosmosNEW]

5 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Layer FX Outline could be an option. But this might lead to rasterization when exporting.

This definitely leads to rasterization. Therefore no option!

 I noticed the greyedout option for additional stroke in the appearance studio as well. Hmm...

[Dan C]

On 8/29/2021 at 4:05 PM, NotMyFault said:

It seems Appearance Studio does not allow to add multiple strokes for text layers. The symbol to add fill/stroke is greyed out.

This is logged with our developers, so I'll be sure to 'bump' this report with your post now