{"id":34,"date":"2014-08-15T00:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-08-15T00:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:52:08","slug":"difference-between-objectoutline-stroke-objectexpand-and-objectcompound-pathmake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/difference-between-objectoutline-stroke-objectexpand-and-objectcompound-pathmake\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between Object>Outline Stroke, Object>Expand, and Object>Compound Path\/Make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Outline Stroke<\/strong>\u00a0actually takes a stroke, and turns it into a filled path. For example, if you have a stroked path that&#8217;s 10mm long, and 1mm wide, you&#8217;ll get a filled path that&#8217;s 10mm x 1mm, with no stroke. It doesn&#8217;t create lines, it reduces strokes on objects to filled paths.<br \/>\nSee:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/painting-fills-strokes.html#convert_strokes_to_compound_paths\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/painting-fills-strokes.html#convert_strokes_to_compound_paths<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Expand<\/strong>\u00a0doesn&#8217;t really &#8216;make the effect part of the object&#8217;. If you have a filled object with a stroke, it will turn the fill into a non-stroked simple path, and the stroke into a non-stroked compound path (see the Outline Stroke command). It reduces objects to more basic Illustrator objects.<br \/>\nSee:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/grouping-expanding-objects.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/grouping-expanding-objects.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0<strong>Expand Appearance<\/strong>\u00a0command does the same, but with more complex effects. It reduced the appearance of the effect into more basic Illustrator objects. A drop shadow behind a square will become a raster object behind a simple path. A square warped with the Warp command will transform to a simple path whose outlines match those of the warped square. Expand Appearance is a destructive command that removes effects and the style of the original objects cannot be easily recreated without reapplying all the original effects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A\u00a0<strong>Compound Path<\/strong>\u00a0is a set of paths combined into one object. It can be used with filled objects to &#8216;cut holes&#8217; in objects. It can be achieved with the Pathfinder command, or using Ctrl+8\/Cmd+8. See:<a style=\"color: #336699;\" href=\"http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/combining-objects.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/combining-objects.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/illustrator\/comments\/2cu7zd\/difference_between_objectoutline_stroke\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline Stroke\u00a0actually takes a stroke, and turns it into a filled path. For example, if you have a stroked path that&#8217;s 10mm long, and 1mm wide, you&#8217;ll get a filled path that&#8217;s 10mm x 1mm, with no stroke. It doesn&#8217;t create lines, it reduces strokes on objects to filled paths. See:\u00a0http:\/\/helpx.adobe.com\/illustrator\/using\/painting-fills-strokes.html#convert_strokes_to_compound_paths Expand\u00a0doesn&#8217;t really &#8216;make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustrator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jmrowe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}