topic Re: White Text over Fill Problem in Installation & update

White Text over Fill Problem

MSotero — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:55:36 GMT

In my tile blocks, sheet index, etc. I use white text over solid fills to create text effects like the attached image.
Publishing from PM for PDF, PLT, DWG, DWF, etc are fine.
However, if I publish a bit map format such as pict, tiff, jpeg, jpeg2000, then the white text drops out leaving me with the fill and black text.

These days the planning departments appreciate getting tiff or jpeg files to put together PowerPoint presentations (otherwise they have to scan stuff).

The Display Order of drawing elements has the Fills set to Send to Back and Text set to Bring to Front.

I'm using the most current AC9 build 2172.
So is it a bug or am I missing a step?

Re: White Text over Fill Problem

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:13:19 GMT

Try to use the "opaque" option available in the "text settings" dialog.
I think it works

Re: White Text over Fill Problem

MSotero — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:35:48 GMT

miker wrote:
Try to use the "opaque" option available in the "text settings" dialog.
I think it works

Thanks but that does not seem to work.
That option seems affect the text cell (or box?) but not the text itself.

Re: White Text over Fill Problem

Aussie John — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:25:51 GMT

use the PDF option as Powerpoint can use them.
If I am reading you right you are using a grey fill with white text over. Try giving the text the inbuilt coloured background and that may behave better.
Alternatively make a PDF then convert the PDF to a JPEG

Re: White Text over Fill Problem

MSotero — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:42:24 GMT

Aussie wrote:
use the PDF option as Powerpoint can use them.
If I am reading you right you are using a grey fill with white text over. Try giving the text the inbuilt coloured background and that may behave better.
Alternatively make a PDF then convert the PDF to a JPEG

Thanks for your input as it is appreciated.
Yes the pdf to jpeg thing is what I've been having to do for them.
And I do provide them with the pdf's too (which is not entirely the point).
If PM is unable to produce the bitmap images as it should, then isn't this a bug that should be fixed.
After all, it isn't just for the isolated application I mentioned that I could use bitmap images.
Even though a work around may exist for many things, if a bug actually exists it would be nice to have it fixed to save the trouble.
I guess that it what I'm trying to get a handle on with my post. Is this a bug or am I doing something incorrectly.
I don't want to assume its a bug, but it seems to be one.

Re: White Text over Fill Problem

Karl Ottenstein — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:44:02 GMT

MSotero wrote:
In my tile blocks, sheet index, etc. I use white text over solid fills to create text effects like the attached image.
Publishing from PM for PDF, PLT, DWG, DWF, etc are fine.
However, if I publish a bit map format such as pict, tiff, jpeg, jpeg2000, then the white text drops out leaving me with the fill and black text.

I asked Michael privately for a small test file to check this.

This is indeed a bug on the Mac version of 9. It works fine on Windows. I would imagine that it is corrected in 10.

Regards,
Karl