Repel text under not working

[zaphodeist]

It confused me when text repel first turned up

[Tazz]

I know this thread is older, but if someone stumbles upon it such as I did looking for help, then I wanted to add my two cents worth to assist others.

I had the same problem and could not for the life of me get the "repel text under" to work even though I had successfully done it a million times (slight exaggeration, but a lot)...My issue which I discovered was some how the text box itself had the "repel text under" box checked, which caused the issue. ONLY the objects/images on top of the text should have the repel text box checked. If you are having the same problem and doing every thing to repel text to no avail, definitely try this remedy. It worked like a charm as soon as I unchecked the box!

Tazz

[digitalphaser]

By the way. This is one of the critical points in Xara.

This feature is poorly implemented for professional layout.
Golden principle: The text should be always above the bitmap graphics.
By PDF export, part of the text which is below the bitmap graphic converted automatically to bitmap.



Be careful.

[mwenz]

By the way. This is one of the critical points in Xara.

This feature is poorly implemented for professional layout.
Golden principle: The text should be always above the bitmap graphics.
By PDF export, part of the text which is below the bitmap graphic converted automatically to bitmap.



Be careful.

I agree...text in nearly all instances should be above, or on a higher layer, than any bitmap images.

But that said, text doesn't necessarily get converted to bitmaps. Doesn't in any of my PDFs.

Mike

[digitalphaser]

I agree...text in nearly all instances should be above, or on a higher layer, than any bitmap images.

But that said, text doesn't necessarily get converted to bitmaps. Doesn't in any of my PDFs.

Mike

Yes. Your car probably clipped with a vector mask? And it is not PDF/X?

This problem also exists in the InDesign too. But in InDesign the text can flow around graphics, which is located on the lower layers.

By the way. If the transparent bitmap is placed above CMYK background, so by PDF/X exporting whole bitmap area converted to single bitmap.

I probably poorly explained. Sorry.