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- [Instructor] In this movie,

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we'll take a look at how you
align text to the pixel grid.

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And so notice that I have some

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live editable text in the top
left corner of this document.

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I'll go ahead and select it

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with a black arrow tool,

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and then I'll press Control
+ or Command + on a Mac,

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in order to zoom-in, and you can see,

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that in addition to this
essential anti-aliasing

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that's associated with a
curved and diagonal edges,

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we have this unproductive anti-aliasing

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along the vertical and horizontal edges.

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Now, in a perfect world you'd be able to

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align this text to the pixel grid

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just by turning on that icon

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on the far-right side
of the control panel,

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but notice that it's dimmed.

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And that's because, as things stand

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as I'm recording this movie,

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you can't align editable
text to the pixel grid.

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So what you do instead

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is go up to the Type menu

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and choose Create Outlines

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which is going to convert the
text to static path outlines.

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So, obviously you need to make sure

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that all of your edits are done,

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then go ahead and choose the command.

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Now notice at this point,

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the horizontal and vertical edges

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are still anti-aliased,

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and to make that abundantly clear,

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I'll press Control H or Command H on a Mac

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to hide those selection edges.

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And so if you want to get rid
of all that anti-aliasing,

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around the i for example,

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then just go ahead and click on that icon,

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which is now available.

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And notice that all that
anti-aliasing goes away.

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Problem is, things may not work out

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exactly the way you'd like,

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and so notice that all of the letters

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are looking really great,

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except for the lower case Ns,

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and so as you can see here,

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this right-hand vertical stem

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is wider and shorter than it's counterpart

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over on the left-hand side,

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and so if you want to fix that problem,

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you need to press Control H,

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or Command H on a Mac,

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in order to bring back
those selection edges,

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and then press the A key to
switch to the white arrow tool,

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and now I'll just go ahead
and click on this point

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and shift-click on this one

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and press the down arrow key

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in order to nudge them into
a more desirable position

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so that they're aligned to the baseline

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along with the other letters,

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and then I'll click on this anchor point

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and shift-click on this guy right there,

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and press the right arrow key

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so that the two vertical
stems are the same width.

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And so you may find yourself

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running into those kinds of problems.

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Another thing to note

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is that you only want to
align big, bold display type

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to the pixel grid,

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and that's because aligning
small or thin letters

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can cause problems.

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And to see what that looks like,

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I'll go ahead and switch over
to this document right here,

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and I'll zoom-in on this left-hand iPhone.

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Now, at this point, everything looks great

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and that's because of Pixel
Preview is turned off,

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and so to turn it on, I'll
go up to the View menu

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and choose Pixel Preview,

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at which point we can see that

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we have some problems.

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Now notice that we have some anti-aliasing

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along this top horizontal edge,

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obviously we have a lot of anti-aliasing

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inside the letters,

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we also have some bad edges

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up here at the top of
this case, and so-forth.

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And along the top of this left-hand phone.

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And so to fix all that,

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you'd want to go up to the Select menu,

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choose Object, and then notice
this command right here,

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Not Aligned To Pixel Grid.

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And so this command is
going to allow you to select

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everything inside the active document

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that is not already aligned,

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which happens to be everything
in this particular document,

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and then I'll right-click
inside the document window

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and choose Make Pixel Perfect.

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And notice that does exactly
what we want it to do

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along those horizontal and vertical edges,

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but it doesn't appear to
do much at all to the text.

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But now notice, if I were
to go up to the View menu

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and turn off Pixel Preview,

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that we've messed the
text up significantly.

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And so this is how it had appeared before

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and this is how it looks after.

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And so imagine that you
want to create a document

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that works equally well
in print and onscreen,

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in that case,

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go ahead and undo that
last modification like so,

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and then I'll press the V key

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to switch back to my black arrow tool,

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I'll shift-click on those
letters to deselect them,

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and then I'll just go ahead

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and scroll over to the left-hand iPhone

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and I'll shift-click on it's letters

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to deselect them as well,

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and now with the text deselected,

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I'll go ahead and once again,

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right-click inside the document window

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and choose Make Pixel Perfect

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in order to align everything

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except the text to the pixel grid.

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Now at this point, I no
longer want the bounding box,

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so I'll go up to the View menu

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and choose Hide Bounding
Box to get rid of it,

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and then I'll press Control Shift A,

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or Command Shift A on a Mac,

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to deselect my artwork.

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And the result is an illustration

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that will have no anti-aliasing

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along it's horizontal or vertical edges.

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And then, just so we can
see the difference here,

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I'll go up to the View menu

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and choose Pixel Preview,

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and again as you can see here,

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our horizontal and vertical edges

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no longer have any
anti-aliasing whatsoever,

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and yet, if we were to print the document,

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the text would look absolutely great.

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And so what we have is effectively
the best of both worlds.

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And so just remember,

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if you want to align
big, bold display type

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to the pixel grid inside Illustrator CC,

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you first need to convert
it to static path outlines.