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Is there a way to truly flatten objects?

  • April 22, 2024
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oscargodson

I can outline and flatten but it results in overlapping line still. Here’s an example. The K here is in outline view. I outlined the font then flattened but this isn’t really flattened like I’d expect (or expect in other vector programs) which is just outlining the stroke not overlapping like this.

I can only attach one image it looks like but if you just type a K in illustrator and do outline youll see what I would expect. Is there a way to not create these complex outlines since they can cause scaling and export issues across platforms.

Screenshot 2024-04-22 at 12.46.50 PM

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Vishal_Ramawat

It could be font dependent also. I tried with Inter and Arial fonts, the result was single outline, not overlapping seggregations.



Razin
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  • February 23, 2025

If you do union selection to the objects and then flatten, you can get rid of the intersections.

On the left is just Flattened, on the right is Union applied and then Flattened.