Border on textblock disappear when converted

[Dritalei]

Is there a way to avoid the textblock border/stroke to disappear when the
textblock is converted to paths?

Need to improve my workflow when plotting a lot of shapes/text on a Graphtec
plotter. This stroke becomes a cut line later when plotting. I have to export
vector shapes as AI and then import into Omega Composer.

Now I have to manually draw a rectangle around each converted textblock, and
is quite time consuming.

Anyone got a clue here?

[Judy Arndt]

Dritalei wrote:

> Is there a way to avoid the textblock border/stroke to disappear when the
> textblock is converted to paths?

Are you using FHMX? If so, first Modify > Separate Attributes.
Then Select > Subselect until you see the text block borders. Convert to
Paths.

Set up keyboard shortcut for both operations to make quick work.

Judy Arndt

[-[RiP]-]

That was very informative thanks, but what if I had; a text block with 6
columns and 6 rows, with 1 letter in each box; is there a way of making the
stroke appear around all the boxes (columns and rows) within the text box?