Converting Text To Paths - MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual

For Search, choose an option to define the scope of the search—Selection,
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Page, or Document.
If you chose Selection in step 4, select Add to Selection to add text with the
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specified effect to a current selection. If you chose Page or Document in step 4,
select Remove from Selection to deselect text with the specified effect from a
current selection.
Click Find.
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The number of objects selected appears in the lower left corner of the panel.
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Choose Edit > Preferences. Click Redraw, and deselect Display Text Effects.
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Assign effects after typing text.
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Choose View > Preview to turn off Preview mode and work in Keyline mode.
You can edit text as objects by converting the text to paths. Once the text is
converted, you can edit the shape of individual characters, use text as a clipping
path, apply complicated strokes and fills to the shape of a group of characters, and
apply FreeHand and third-party Xtras that create special effects. However, you can
no longer edit text converted to paths as text—for example, you can't change the
spelling, type, or paragraph attributes.
Any PostScript Type 1, PostScript Type 3 font created with Fontographer, or
TrueType font installed on your computer can be converted to paths. Text in
linked text blocks cannot be converted to paths unless you unlink the blocks.
Converting text to paths may affect the onscreen appearance of text characters,
because the characters are no longer handled as type outlines by your system's
type-handling utility.
Printing text converted to paths does not require that fonts be installed, but it may
result in poor-quality output, especially at 12-point sizes and smaller.
You cannot convert paths back to text after you manipulate the paths. However,
you can choose Edit > Undo to reverse the conversion if you have not yet
manipulated the paths or saved the file.