Pixel Painter Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 (edited) Hi there, last time I used VWX 2008 on a mac, I could select editable text and choose to go into Outline mode, where just the outline of the text was visible. Now I am on a PC running windows 7 and using Fundamentals 2012, I can no longer find this command... Is it still possible to achieve this font style? or is this just a mac thing? Edited August 13, 2012 by Pixel Painter Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 It's just a mac thing. Quote Link to comment
Pixel Painter Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 Thanks Michael, seems a shame. I think a workaround may be to use a specific outline only true type font for now. Will try to find one when I get a minute. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 If you don't need the letters to be text anymore you can get a similar effect by using Text > TrueType to Polyline hth mk Quote Link to comment
Pixel Painter Posted September 6, 2012 Author Share Posted September 6, 2012 Cheers guys, helpful to know Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Just discovered this! Shameful!! I wonder why this would be? Do Macs and PCs really handle fonts that differently? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 21, 2017 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 21, 2017 2 minutes ago, Tom Klaber said: I wonder why this would be? Do Macs and PCs really handle fonts that differently? Extremely in my experience. Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 ha. Yeah - that is a nifty trick that I am sad to loose. Please do not make it high on anybody's list though - bigger fish to fry. Quote Link to comment
RafaelPernia Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 Seem like laziness to be honest. Paragraphs look completely different from Mac to PC. Spacing, width... Other software handles this well without rasterizing, photoshop, illustrator, even Cinema 4D in which you can have 3d text without rasterizing it and handles outline. What's worse is that I had text in Outline and once you're in PC you can't put it to normal and it looks good so I don't know if it's a matter of font handling. Quote Link to comment
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