Need Help Illustrator - text on path

[myront]

Couple of questions.
1. How to separate text from a text path? Not create outlines though. Must remain editable text.
2. Highlight & delete text on a path. line is still a text path. How to change it to a regular path?

 

[Johnny Best]

1. grab text and drag to where you want it, it will still be editable
2. drag curser to blacken text and hit delete. or hit copy and draw new path and hit paste.
3. Anytime in the past when someone would ask these questions you would make a snide comment about how Coral was better. Oh how the tides have changed! You are finally have come over from the Darkside.

 

[myront]

1. grab text and drag to where you want it, it will still be editable
2. drag curser to blacken text and hit delete. or hit copy and draw new path and hit paste.
3. Anytime in the past when someone would ask these questions you would make a snide comment about how Coral was better. Oh how the tides have changed! You are finally have come over from the Darkside.

I doubt that I'll ever "cross over". I don't have to use illustrator just want to become more familiar with it. I will just refrain from pushing 1 software over the other.
With that said, I'm not sure I follow you. Let me describe a practical situation. I have text on an ellipse path now it's time to plot just the text. A plotter will plot both the text and the path. I know I can go Type/Create Outlines but I as wondering if the text could simply be separated from the path whereby leaving the text curved and still editable and also leaving the path as a true path and not a text path.

 

[Boudica]

I doubt that I'll ever "cross over". I don't have to use illustrator just want to become more familiar with it. I will just refrain from pushing 1 software over the other.
With that said, I'm not sure I follow you. Let me describe a practical situation. I have text on an ellipse path now it's time to plot just the text. A plotter will plot both the text and the path. I know I can go Type/Create Outlines but I as wondering if the text could simply be separated from the path whereby leaving the text curved and still editable and also leaving the path as a true path and not a text path.

Just outline it. Or expand it. Why don't you want to create outlines? Do you not have "work files" and "production files"?

 

[myront]

Just outline it. Or expand it. Why don't you want to create outlines? Do you not have "work files" and "production files"?

I appreciate the help.
Our "work files" & "production files" are 1 in the same. I suppose one could duplicate the artboard and have 1 as the working and 1 as the production file? Not sure how you'd distinguish 1 from the other though. I suppose it would be best to have them separate?
I did manage to find a script that'll do it but the text is straightened and the path is still a text path. Tried to get MS CoPilot to modified the script but got nowhere.

 

[Adam Vreeke]

I appreciate the help.
Our "work files" & "production files" are 1 in the same. I suppose one could duplicate the artboard and have 1 as the working and 1 as the production file? Not sure how you'd distinguish 1 from the other though. I suppose it would be best to have them separate?
I did manage to find a script that'll do it but the text is straightened and the path is still a text path. Tried to get MS CoPilot to modified the script but got nowhere.

Instead of different artboard, just create a new layer. ctrl+c, then ctrl + f (this is paste in place). Drag the newly pasted text onto new layer, outline one of the texts and just turn off the visibility on the editable text. That way you can always go back and change without much trouble or confusion.

 

[Boudica]

I appreciate the help.
Our "work files" & "production files" are 1 in the same. I suppose one could duplicate the artboard and have 1 as the working and 1 as the production file? Not sure how you'd distinguish 1 from the other though. I suppose it would be best to have them separate?
I did manage to find a script that'll do it but the text is straightened and the path is still a text path. Tried to get MS CoPilot to modified the script but got nowhere.

You could save-as, and add "print" or "cut" to the end of the file name. My work files are Illustrator files. My production files are either a PDF, an EPS or a Tiff - I also tend to make a "production" folder for the production files if I have more than say 2 for the project.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

3. Anytime in the past when someone would ask these questions you would make a snide comment about how Coral was better. Oh how the tides have changed! You are finally have come over from the Darkside.

I had thought you had switched to Affinity Products? Of course, my memory isn't what it used to be, so I more likely remembering wrong.

 

[myront]

You could save-as, and add "print" or "cut" to the end of the file name. My work files are Illustrator files. My production files are either a PDF, an EPS or a Tiff - I also tend to make a "production" folder for the production files if I have more than say 2 for the project.

Hmm, kind of the same here. Our working files are kept on a server, then once approved we send pdf's or tiffs to the print tech via a RIP Station. All those files are kept in an archive folder. If a designer pulls up the file all they will see is the 1 working file. That file might have several doodles off to the side and maybe some notes or various clipart that may or may not have been used.

 

[Boudica]

Hmm, kind of the same here. Our working files are kept on a server, then once approved we send pdf's or tiffs to the print tech via a RIP Station. All those files are kept in an archive folder. If a designer pulls up the file all they will see is the 1 working file. That file might have several doodles off to the side and maybe some notes or various clipart that may or may not have been used.

all of our files are on the network server. I've got two computers at my desk. One is the design computer, and the other is the RIP computer.
We have a 3rd computer just for our Agfa Annapurna RIP - also connected to the network. So, working files, assets, proofs and production files are all in the same place.

 

[Johnny Best]

I had thought you had switched to Affinity Products? Of course, my memory isn't what it used to be, so I more likely remembering wrong.

No you did remember correctly, I haves switched but am not going to cry and be lazy and ask for help with it. Will find my answers asking google and learn on my own not like some brain dead Corel user crying every time he can’t figure something out on his own.

 

[myront]

No you did remember correctly, I haves switched but am not going to cry and be lazy and ask for help with it. Will find my answers asking google and learn on my own not like some brain dead Corel user crying every time he can’t figure something out on his own.

Wow. I try for hours to find answers before asking. You can call me any name but "lazy" I am not! What happened to "no such thing as a stupid question."

 

[Johnny Best]

What ever happened to "you ask a stupid question you get a stupid answer" or... "no question is stupid if you don't know the answer"
"stupid is as stupid does" I apologize for the lazy remark.