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OCR: Converting text to composite path You can convert text characters from any Adobe Type 1 or Fontographer Type font into composite paths, which you can edil just like any other composite path. To convert text to composite paths: Select the text block Choose "Convert to paths from the Type menu. To convert text to paths, you must have the printer font installed ir your System folder or folder with its screen font. Printer fonts are the downloadable versions of the fonts that your PostScript printer uses Once you convert text to paths the text becomes single compos path, which you can edit to design your own characters Letters with more than one component (such asand text blocks with multiple characters become single composite paths with multiple subpaths Converting and filling letters such as ...