Re: XaraDPX 19 - paragraph color
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Originally Posted by
Acorn
If you select the text Tool and just click and type, you create a Text Line; the more you type, the longer it gets.
If you click and drag horizontally, you create a Text Column. This word-wraps and grows downwards.
If you drag diagonally, you create a Text Area. Text Areas can flow over into other text areas or create new pages for your text.
The last two make use of Paragraph Backgrounds.
The first only shows a small part under the words that is bigger than the text background when applied.
A Paragraph Background is left edge to right edge of the bounding box.
Text background is only under what you have typed.
Yes, you are using a Text Line and Paragraph Background incorrectly.
Use the text Tool:
- Highlight all the text and Copy.
- Click and drag diagonally to a similar box size of the current text. This is a Text Area.
- Paste.
- Job done.
Acorn
Thanks! I knew of the different methods of creating a place for text, but didn't realize they had specifically different behaviors (and object types).
Re: XaraDPX 19 - paragraph color
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Originally Posted by
handrawn
I just selected all the text and then went through the steps I posted earlier [selecting a red] and it worked:
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maybe the original is a mish-mash of colourbar right clicks....
Interesting that it works if you select the entire area, but not for individual lines in that same area. If I change some lines to "none", those without tabs at the end once again only go the width of the text, rather than the whole area.
Re: XaraDPX 19 - paragraph color
a text line can only configure to the end of that line by default - it has no idea how far out to go otherwise, unless you tell it...
Re: XaraDPX 19 - paragraph color
Quote:
Originally Posted by
handrawn
a text line can only configure to the end of that line by default - it has no idea how far out to go otherwise, unless you tell it...
handrawn, nicely put.
Acorn