Typophile

Not Type Related -- Illustrator Question

Tiffany Wardle

I posted at Adobe in their forums but I thought I'd roll the dice and see if any of my fellow typophiles have experienced the same thing.

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I've created some files in Illustrator CS. I'd like to give them to my client to use in Illustrator 8 ... they are basically templates. When I export them as legacy files all the type breaks into separate letters. I did try to create a text box thinking that perhaps that would work but it didn't. I'm neither all-knowing nor all-seeing so I'm hoping you might have an idea or suggestion for me.

:-)

Thank you.

Tiffany Wardle

Thanks Thomas! :-)

I love the new text engine so I wouldn't trade that for anything. I'll just have to give my client all the fiddly numbers and a file with guides of where to start their text boxes.

Thomas Phinney

There's a whole long thread about this on the Adobe forums, entitled "the new text engine" or something like that. It explains this stuff in some detail.

I believe the short answer is that backwards compatibility is limited in this way, and it's one of the sacrifices they had to make to get to the new text engine.

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