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How can one consistently box select vertices in Illustrator?
There is a on option for this. Go to Edit → Preferences → Selection and Anchor Display... and check the option Object selection by path only. Now you can do what you ask. General usability goes down ...
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How can one consistently box select vertices in Illustrator?
The "Direct Selection" tool can do this, but only if you start your click outside of a object. If you start your click inside of an object, it acts like the "Selection" tool and ...
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How can one consistently box select vertices in Illustrator?
Use the Lasso Tool (Q)
Draw a path around the objects you want selected.
If you want to select specific vertices inside of one object, you would first have to enter the object by double-clicking the ...
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Reduce "boldness" of text-converted shape
There's also the quicker way where you just apply a white stroke and play with the thickness of that stroke, but this doesn't really affect the shape, it just adds a white overlay all over the edges.
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Reduce "boldness" of text-converted shape
If the text has been converted to paths, it might be possible to use an Offset Path effect, although it might not work so well on all glyphs of a font.
Open up the appearance panel, hit the fx button &...
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