Gobe Productive User's Guide - Creating Outlines

- Working in the graphics environment
- Drawing tools
- Pre-defined Shapes
- Pen Attributes
- Fill Color
- Text Color
- Customizing inks
- Customizing ink sets
- Transparency
- Moving items
- Resizing & Rotating items
- Aligning Items
- Reshaping, reorienting & smoothing shapes
- Arranging, grouping & locking items
- Creating Outlines
- Views & Layers
- Styles

# Creating Outlines

Any text can be transformed into an outline. Once the text is in outline format you can then rotate, resize or reshape it. This is useful if you want to change text or individual letters as if they were graphic objects.

In this example, the letter A was typed into a Word Processing frame within the Graphics environment (1). The A was then transformed into an outline (2), and rotated and resized (3). In the fourth example, the outline (2) was reshaped to create a different sort of A (4).

## To Create an Outline

1. Select the Word Processing frame that has the text you wish to outline. The frame is selected if it has "handles" around it. If the frame is active, you cannot create outlines. In that case, click somewhere else on the workspace and then click once on the frame to select it.
   You can also create a new Word Processing frame and then enter the text for outlining. To do this, either select the frame from the frame tool , or select Insert Frame from the Frame menu. Enter the text into the blank Word Processing frame, click somewhere else on the workspace, and then click once on the frame to select it.
2. Once the Word Processing frame is selected, go to the Arrange menu and select Create Outlines.
3. All the text in the frame is transformed into an outline. Each letter can then be moved, resized, rotated and reshaped as you like.

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