Thanks for that. I have outlined the text. Hopefully that will solve any future problem with fonts.

I am not certain what your print provider means, but I will try to give you an answer.

Many logos are not pictures, but are bits of text with coloured backgrounds, and the text needs to be treated in the same way as text that is displayed elsewhere on your file.

Outlining Text in Illustrator

Before you outline text in Adobe Illustrator or Adobe InDesign, use your short-cut keys to select everything on the page ("Apple" + "A" on a Mac, or 'Windows" + "A" on a PC). This will select everything on the page. THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE PROCESS. SELECT ALL TEXT USING THE SHORT-CUT KEYS.

You then go to "Type", and then choose "Create Outlines" from the dropdown menu (Apple-Mac users, see the below picture).

Once this proceedure is complete, ALL text (including areas of text that you thought were images) will then be outlined.

Outlining Text in Photoshop

To outline text (or "Convert to Shapes") in Photoshop, choose: "Select" > "All Layers".

All the layers should be selected, and this can be seen in the Layers Tab box below. All the selected layers are coloured blue.

Then choose: "Layer" > "Type" > "Convert to Shapes".

Save the file, and you have a saved photoshop file with outlined text.

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Good morning ANZ,

You are correct. Adobe Illustrator is NOT Microsoft Word, and the solution to your problem is easy.

Below are some pictures that show you how to change the colours of fonts in Adobe Illustrator (if you are using an Apple/Mac).

In the below image I want to change the colour of my name on my business cards from green to black.

First, click once on the button shown in the below image. This will enable you to select the text that you want to change.

Second, click ONCE on the font that needs to change colour. The relevant text should then be highlighted in a simular way to what is shown below.

Third, click TWICE in the colour box near the bottom left of the scree. BE CAREFUL, you must click on the box that changes the 'INSIDE" colours. The other box is for the "OUTLINE" colours.

A new box will appear that shows your existing colours. In the example shown below, the green colour is made up of 86% Cyan, 44% magenta, 100% yellow, and 48% black.

Fourth, change the colour to the one that you want. I have changed the colours of the fonts, in the below example, to 0% Cyan, 0% magenta, 0% yellow, and 100% black. Then click "OK".

The colour of the font has now been changed from green to black. it is that simple.

Fonts are the letters & numerals that you use to create text. This "Fonts" discussion board consists of letters and numerals, and those letters and numerals are fonts.

In the old days, you would tell your commercial printer what type of font you wanted (e.g.: Times New Roman or Garamond or whatever), and the commercial printer would get these letters and numbers (i.e.: fonts) from a draw in the printing room and construct the text for your print-job. These were steel letters that would be used to print your job.

Today, things are a lot different, because everything is created by computer. So, when you create a folded leaflet or unfolded leaflet or your business cards on your PC or Apple-Mac that you want printed, then you send an electronic file to your commercial printer to have it printed. All the letters that will create your job are computer code, and your commercial printer must have those computer codes if the commercial printer is going to print your job.

There are thousands upon thousand of different styles of fonts, so there are thousand upon thousand of various computer codes that are required to produce those different fonts.

If your commercial printer does not have that code, then your commercial printer cannot produce your job with the fonts that you want.

This is why you should either:

1. Attach the Fonts" to your job when you send it to your printer; OR
2. Outline all the text before you send it to your commercial printer.

Good morning Jason,

For most purposes, your comment is correct. If everyone outlines the text fonts before they uploaded files, then most jobs would be printed easily. No fonts would need to be attached to the jobs, and most jobs would be printed easily.

There are really only two reasons why fonts should not be outlined:

1. If a job is quite large and might become complex (e.g.: a book), then having the fonts attached will allow the commercial printer to 'adjust the file' when it is needed, and do those adjustments with ease.
2. If a job is small, but quite complex, then it is more easily adjusted if the fonts are attached.

Having written the above, it should be noted that most printing jobs (e.g.: business cards, folded leaflets and stationery) are NOT complex or large, at it would be better if the fonts were outlined.

How do I change the colour of my fonts on the online design system?

Silly me. Howe do I change the colour of the squares and circles?

OK.

Below is an image of a business card, and i want to change th text.

First, click once on the text that you want to alter. Then 'block" all the words ijn that box that you want to change. This is shown in the image below where the arrow numbered "1" points..

You have selected the text, so now click once on the colour bar where the number "2" arrow points, and a drop down menu will appear (see below).

Choose the colour that you want in the drop down menu, and click on that colour once.

Your colour has been changed, and you then change the next text box that you want altered.You then do the same thing with the other text boxes.

You are frree to use the same fonts on your letterheads and your business cards. It will not matter if the fonts are different sizes, as the papers are different sizes (i.e.: small cards need small writing, and big sheets need big writing).