Hi guys, 

So I've recently wanted to convert some text I made into a vector image for heat press printing (Blue text with a white stroke border) but when I trace bitmap it either gets rid of the white border or adds in a white background. 

Is there any way around this? 

Thanks in advance.

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I'd just recreate it with Arial MT, 950px. Duplicate, convert to unioned path, outset for the white outline. Much better results than trace.

Actually this can be made quite easily with 2 editable stacked text-objects: top one with broad white stroke width, Round Join/Cap and "Stroke/Fill/Markers"-order - bottom text-object same but black fill+stroke + broader stroke width:

^^ works perfectly.

Awesome, thanks for your help guys, I'll give them a crack!