First Save Separate Filesīefore you actually outline the fonts, you should first save out your design file in a separate document. You can also ask your printer how they want the fonts supplied (they may say embedded fonts are just fine too), but make sure that it matches up with what the licensing terms are for the fonts you are using. Read the licensing terms from where you purchased the font from the font designer and see what font permissions they set for the fonts you are using. How do you know if you should outline the font? This ensures there are no issues with fonts in the design file or any errors. The reason why a print company would want fonts outlined is to still be able to print the font without having to have the font installed on their systems. Printers get numerous design files submitted to them daily, with hundreds of different fonts.
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If you have any questions at all after reading the license for the font(s) you are using, contact the font designer and ask. You must first read the licensing for the font you are using to make sure you legally are allowed to embed the font or even outline the font. 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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