Is there a way to export text in Rhino as curves (for Adobe Illustrator)?

Rhino Rhino for Mac
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The reason behind my question is, whenever I bring text into Adobe Illustrator from Rhino OSX, it’s all over the place (most likely Illustrator’s fault, not Rhino’s). But if Rhino could just export the text as curves, I assume Illustrator wouldn’t have a problem as it never does with just curves.

Thanks

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Not directly. You would need to make the text using the TextObject command (as curves) instead of using the annotation command.

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Thanks John, that’s actually pretty useful – not the ideal solution but gets me there nonetheless.

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In Windows Rhino, you can Explode annotation text to turn it into outline curves. Mac Rhino can’t explode text yet. I don’t know why.
I’ll get it on the list.

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what command of text to outline curves in window version?

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Simply use the Explode command.

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And I think that also works on Mac now as well…

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EXPLODE
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When is used command “explode” sometimes shapes are not correct. Better is to use TextObject command.

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It’s still not working on the Mac version.
I’m on Version 8 (8.12.24282.07002, 2024-10-08).

When I explode a text with the Explode command, it gets way bigger than it was:

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This is the result of the What command for the text object:

text  
  
  ID: fd18b965-6387-4c63-bcff-b7dfaea4ab96 (7353)
  Object name: (not named)
  Layer name: def
  Render Material: 
    source = from layer
    index = -1
  Attribute UserData:
    UserData ID: 563238F9-C201-411d-A7B1-13895A0317AD
    Plug-in: Rhino
      description: AutoPointsOn
      saved in file: no
      copy count: 1
  
  Geometry:
    Text
    (ON_Text)
      Point: (-52.7866,118.313,25)  X-axis: (1,0,0)  Y-axis: (0,1,0)
      Height: 2.50000 meters
      Wrapping width not set.
      Justification: center,middle
      Runs: 1
      Run 0:  - Font: Arial
      	Text : NW
      Not wrapped
      
      Annotation style:
        Name: Millimeter Small
        Style index: 0
        Style id: 7BA6CC57-BB01-468f-8560-A17C6072A86C
        Text height: 2.50000 meters
        Model space scale: 10
        Scaled text height: 25.00000 meters
        Arrow type:   Solid triangle

Any thoughts on how to work around this issue?

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Not supposed to happen… Can you post a file with that text object before exploding?

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Sure, you can download it from here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ei1ovbjfhd4nu199ztej1/Rhino-Forum_text-example.3dm?rlkey=o20m88u15ur4765f6s8ilcgnn&dl=0

More context: I was baking it from the Sun Path component of LBT 1.8.
The Rhino geometry came from the highlighted node:

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If you set the model space scale to 1, exploding the text will stay the same size. Not sure whether this intended behavior or not.

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This is due to the combination of baking to an annotation style that has the model space scale set to something else than 1 and at the same time having annotations styles set to not scale in model space.
→ RH-84650 Text: Explode To Curves - Size Issue
-wim

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Thanks @Helvetosaur & @wim for the replies and for logging the issue!

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RH-84650 is fixed in Rhino 8 Service Release 14

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