Thanks Mark, I'll have to remember this one!
Marc
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Thanks Mark, I'll have to remember this one!
Marc
of course the 'line' round a shape is not really a line its a 'shape outline'
here is a an unclosed line that looks closed but it isn't - with Marks cilpview applied [see xar file - done freehand so quite a few nodes - may take a while to open]
done just to see if I could do it ;)
Steve beat me to it.
Eric
no breaks - this was drawn as a line taking great care not to let the nodes join up at the ends [need to have your freehand detect taken right down in registry - mine is set at zero - or the darn thing will just join automatically :D]
Thanks for all your help.
Seems it is not a straight forward option in XaraX. The best I can muster is to simply simulate it by copy paste enlarge and subtract. As in attachment.
The problem with this is that the line thickness varies around the circumference.
I did think that I could use intersect, but the intersect function takes no account of the line thickness, ie if the intersecting shape has a line width of zero or 100pix the result is as if there was no line - so this won't work.
Many thanks again
Martin
If you want to do it that way, the take the shape, add a bevel (size to suit) - change the light elevation to 90° to flatten out the bevel and add the gradient fill to the bevel - add as many colours as you like to the gradient. You could also make the shape itself transparent to give a line effect.
Thanks Keith
That seems to be the answer - I will now experiment a bit.
The fill and the bevel (line!?) can be filled independantly as you say.
Martin
More playing and investigating:
If you add a bevel to a single line (start with external bevel so you can see what your doing) , change light elevation to 90 and add a linear gradient you can adjust the bevel internally to fill the line. The line still exhibits all the properties of a line and can still be shaped with the shape editor.
Have included the .xar for anyone interested.
Hello. I just read these posts and try things out sometimes for practice (mostly when I'm killing time at work ;) ). I don't really know what I'm doing. I was trying to do what Keith suggested - I got as far as adding the bevel, adjusting the light elevation and then it came to a screeching halt. How do I add a gradient fill? Sorry for the stupid question!