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- [Voiceover] In this movie,
I'll show you a simple

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but practical application
of caps and joins

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that allows us to create
these rounded letter forms

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down here at the bottom of this document.

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And I'll also introduce you
to the Save Selection command.

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All right, so the last time
that we saw this document,

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we were way zoomed in
to the purple infinity,

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but what I want to be able to do

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is stay zoomed in on
these letters down here

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while selecting all of them.

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And that's something I can do

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if I take a moment to save my selection.

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So I'll start by pressing Control + 0

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or Command + 0 on a Mac to
fit the document on screen,

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and then I'll go ahead and
marquee these letters like so

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using the black arrow tool.

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Now let's say I want to save
this selection for later use.

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That is to say, I want to save the fact

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that these letters are selected

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and so I can come back
to them any time I like.

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In that case, I go up to the Select menu

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and choose the Save Selection
command, and I'll just

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go ahead and call this
selection Letters and click OK.

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And now notice, if I click off the letters

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to deselect them and then I
go ahead and zoom in tight

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on the a and the b like so, I can reselect

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all of those letters just by returning

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to the Select menu and
choosing what is now

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the last command in the menu, Letters,

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and that will go ahead and reselect

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every single letter in the document.

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All right, but in truth, I'm zoomed in

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a little too tight here.

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What I want to do is create some guides

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that will help demonstrate how things

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have gotten off where
these letters are concerned

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as a function of that 20-point stroke.

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And so I'll go ahead and press Control + R

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or Command + R in a Mac in
order to bring up my rulers.

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And I'll drag a horizontal
guide down from the top ruler

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so that it snaps into alignment
with the top anchor point

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in the F, which by the way,
notice, aligns perfectly

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with the top anchor point in the h,

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and yet we're not seeing that alignment

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because 10 points, that
is half of that stroke,

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pops up on the edge of the f,

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whereas it just abruptly
ends at the top of the h.

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All right, now, I'll go ahead and drag out

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another horizontal guide
from that top ruler

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so that it snaps into alignment
with the bottom of the f.

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And notice, even though
that bottom anchor point

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in the f is precisely aligned
with the bottom anchor point

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in the e, we're not seeing that alignment,

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and that's because the
bottom of the f ends abruptly

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whereas half of that stroke continues

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around the bottom of the e.

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We have an even bigger problem

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where the bottoms of the
b and d are concerned,

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because notice here, as a
function of this half-align weight

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that's dropping down
below the curved portions

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of both letters, we're covering the stems,

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which come down just as far.

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So what I'm going to
do, just to make point

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that much more obvious, I'm
going to scroll over here

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just a little bit and I'm
going to hide the rulers

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by pressing Control + R
or Command + R on a Mac

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and then I'll go up to the View menu,

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choose Guides, and choose
the Lock Guides command

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to turn it off, and then I'll
marquee this bottom guide

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right there, and I'm
going to make a copy of it

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10 points down by pressing
Shift + Alt + down arrow.

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That would Shift + Option
+ down arrow on the Mac,

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so that we now have a guide that's aligned

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to the bottom of the curved
portions of these letters.

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And now, I'll click on this
top guide to select it,

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and I'll press Shift + Alt + up arrow

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or Shift + Option + up arrow on the Mac

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in order to create a guide at
the perceived top of the f.

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All right, now I'll go ahead
and click off the guide

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to deselect it and I'll
return to the View menu,

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choose Guides, and then choose Lock Guides

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to turn the command back on,

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and that way I won't
mess up my guide lines.

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All right, now I'll
return to the Select menu

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and choose Letters in order
to select all the letters

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in the document, and I'll
click on the word Stroke

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up here in the Control
Panel, and I'll switch

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to the Projecting Cap, just so we can see

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what kind of difference it makes.

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And notice that it goes ahead and extends

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the crossbar here on the f quite nicely

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so that we have some sharp transitions,

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but we have a few problems here on the g

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as well as the other letters,
such as the d and the b,

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that have multiple sub-paths

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that are intersecting each other.

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However, notice that all
the letters are rising

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to the occasion right here.

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So we can see that the projecting cap

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is extending all the
way to the top guideline

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as well as all the way down
to the bottom guideline,

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which means that we have some decent stems

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for our b and d in particular.

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But what's going to work out
better all the way around

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is to click on the word Stroke once again

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and switch to the Round
Cap in order to produce

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this rounded effect here.

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That does leave us with
a problem, however.;

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Notice if I go ahead and scroll over here,

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we're missing and edge down
here on the left side of the h,

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and we also have a sharp corner

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over here on the right
side of the letter e.

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Now to demonstrate why we're
having this problem on the h,

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I'll press the A key to switch
to the white arrow tool,

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then I'll go ahead and
click off the letter,

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and I'll select this anchor point

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as well as these other three.

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So, in other words, I'm
clicking on this anchor point

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and then I'm Shift-clicking
on the other three,

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and now I'll press Shift + right arrow

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to nudge those points to the right,

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and you can see what we really have here

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is a corner at this location,

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and now that I've moved the points over,

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we've reestablished this miter join,

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but as soon as I move things back,

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we lose the miter join, because
our miter limit is too low.

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And as soon as you have two segments

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that are right on top
of each other like this,

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then it doesn't matter what
you set the miter limit to,

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your corner is going to get beveled.

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All right, so to take
care of this problem,

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I'll return to the Select menu

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and choose the Letters command,

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and then I'll click on the word Stroke.

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Obviously, the Miter Join is
not going to work out for us.

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You could try a Bevel
Join, but it's not going

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to have any effect on the
h, and it's just going

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to slightly clip the corner on the e.

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What we really want is a nice round join,

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which is going to give
us round corner on the e

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and it's going to totally take care

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of our problem here on the h.

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After which point, I'll just go ahead

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and press the Escape
key to hide that panel

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and I'll press Control + 0 or Command + 0

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to center my zoom.