StickerGiant.com offers their clients important tips about how to create outlines for bumper stickers and other stickers with Adobe Illustrator. This process can save a considerable amount of time and frustration, as it eliminates having to hunt for fonts and send them to a printer.
The process of creating custom
bumper stickers usually means adding text to the sticker design. Often, this text is in a unique font, one that is not supported by your printer. If this is the case, then printing your design will reveal no text – the printer doesn't recognize it and, therefore, will not print it when you're done.
In order for a printer to print text for a bumper sticker or other creations using custom fonts, the font must be located and then sent to the printer. This can be enormously time-consuming, as well as frustrating. However, there is a simpler way to go about getting the same results. The text can be outlined in Adobe Illustrator, and then printed.
Outlining text is not difficult, and it offers considerably less hassle than trying to find the font to send to the printer. To outline your lettering, simply open the file that needs to be outlined. Now, select the type for outlining. Once your type is selected, open the type menu and choose "Create Outlines." Your outlines have now been created, and you need to save the file to ensure that your changes are not discarded.
You have now successfully outlined text in Adobe Illustrator, and can print your bumper sticker design or other custom sticker design without worrying about having to install the font to your printer.
To find out more about custom bumper stickers, as well as to learn more about various options available to you, visit
http://www.StickerGiant.com.
About StickerGiant.com: StickerGiant.com began in the basement of John Fischer, after he and illustrator Michael Brooks were laid off from dot-com positions. Since 2000, StickerGiant.com has grown enormously, with 20,000 different products on offer. The company also specializes in creating custom stickers and decals for any need imaginable.
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