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Illustrator Tutorial - Cutting Letters In Half
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In the newsgroups people seem to have a problem cutting shapes (including letters) in half with Illustrator. It is very easy to do. This tutorial uses Illustrator 9. If you have an older version just see if it will work for your version of Illustrator also. It may work. The first operation is... Draw your shape or type your lettering... in this case it was lettering.
Then turn the lettering into "shapes" with the Menu command.
 
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