Changing Letter colors

[Bob Rivers]

I would like to color letters. The bottom half one color and the top half another. I tried changing them to an editable shape which doesn't seem to work. Tried with the fill tool to no avail. I can duplicate the letter change the color of one of them then erase the top half of one and delete the bottom half of the other and join them but that doesn't seem like a good use of time.

Bob

[Gamerprinter]

Select your line of text, click on the fill tool, in Fill Type apply linear, now it's a gradation from white to black. Rotate the linear fade to point in the direction you want (I'm assuming up and down). Choose a color which applies to the black side of the fade, click on the other end of the fade line, select your other color - that's it. You don't need to convert to shape, as you can go back and change the text, but maintain the chosen color fade still applied. Fairly easy to do.

[JimToal]

Intersect/slice shapes

[mwenz]

Gameprinter's method is what I have used whenever I want to reuse/edit the text. If you download the sample XAR file, there are two nodes for each stop. You'll need to zoom way in on the letter "L".

[Bob Rivers]

I tried Gameprinters method and like it, but when I'm pulling it down it doesn't want to go straight ( Kind of a wobble effect). If I understood the intersect/slice function better I would probably go with the method Jim Toal said. Heck I'd be happy to figure that one out. The XARA help file is sometimes a little sketchy. And other times a lot sketchy.

Bob

[theinonen]

Why not just use ClipView to colour the letters?