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Is it possible to export liquid text, and it's centered, irregularly shaped graphic into a webpage being created with DreamWeaver?
I presently own XX 3.2, but would have no problems with upgrading to XX 4 strictly for the 'liquid text' feature for use with web design.
Thanks,
Mark
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It's possible if you use some small tricks.
First thing that comes to mind are inline frames to show the Xtreme created page (as Inline frame Content) or even as a PHP include.
Editing Xtremes html output directly with Dreamweaver will probably break it.
Not sure what you mean here? Is it the centred text and graphics exported to dreamweaver as "html" that you want to be centred in your web page here. Surely you can do that in dreamweaver as CSS?
An approved method to produce a well coded HTML side with the help of Xara Xtreme is the following:
- Create the layout and the necessary graphics with Xara Xtreme.
- Export each object piece by piece as bitmap image (with or without transparency - depends on your layout).
- Code your HTML together with a flexible CSS based layout.
- Use additional techniques like Flash or JavaScript, in order to perfect your work (choose the unobtrusive way as much as possible).
- In order to let text flow around images and let the text be flexible and editable you can use the "Sliced and Diced Sandbags" technique.
Remi
This will not work if the repelling object is placed in the midle of the text (i.e. if it splits lines on two).Quote:
In order to let text flow around images and let the text be flexible and editable you can use the "Sliced and Diced Sandbags" technique.
Besides, this method is extremely complicated with complex shapes (not rectangles) especially if you try to implement it manually.
There are also some problems with browser compatibility in some cases. And the produced result is generally a poor code. So I wouldn't suggest to use it except for extreme cases.
Thank you all for your replies and I apologize for not responding sooner.
Albacore, Yes, I want to export a block of text, centered within it is a piece of clip art that has no linear borders (square, rectangular etc.) The person that has asked me to put this together for them wants the text to be 'Repelled' around all of it's irregularities.Quote:
Originally Posted by Albacore
I've played around with DW for the last few days and have found no way to make this happen. I can align left, right, center, top or bottom if the graphic is contained in a fixed height or width container.
I am not a designer or coder, just trying to help this person out with what I thought was going to be easy.
The reason for using DW and not just building the page entirely with Xtreme is so this person can modify the page on their own later, and to keep the code as clean and fast as possible. He's not budging one bit on this text wrap (liquid) issue.
Sledger's recommendation of the iframe seems doable and will probably be the way I attempt this first. The PHP includes method is more familiar to my limited experience, I've actually used it on a couple different blogs but I'm not sure if it will work with this 'graphic' bit yet, I've only used it for text.
Initially I looked at the technique of defining each row of text set at different lengths with CSS but quickly gave up on the idea because of the complexity.
Thanks again to all who have replied and I welcome any additional thoughts or possible solutions.... Oh! and feel free to bash and ridicule me for my naivite with design and coding:D
I do love Xara Xtreme though!
Mark
Talkgraphics isn't a forum where that is likely to happen. We'd rather *help and suggest* than mock and stipulate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scratch
You'll find plenty of friendly members here, so please never be afraid to ask questions no matter how silly they might at first appear.
You're off to an excellent start then ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scratch
Couldn't the text area with repelled text be grouped and exported as a JPG, then imported into the Dreamweaver page?
Although text as an image is possible John, the text would look nasty as a JPG due to compression and would not be rendered precisely the same by the browser as the real text that appears on the same page.
Also text as an image makes the site slower to download and is not searchable.
Even if it were possible, I can think of few things more annoying than trying to read the lines of text that are split in half to make space for this centred image - has the person asking for the effect considered how impractical his page would be?
This all depends on how you use the centred image to repell your text.
Lines and sentences need not be split at all if you format your page sensibly in columns (for example)?
Dang! You folks sure are responsive:D
Sledger.... Dead on representation of what this person wants.
Daniel.... I thought about making a JPG of the text and graphic, but, without the text being able to be parsed (read) by the search engines the content would never rank in the search results.
Would Xara Webstyle be of any use to me with this creation?
Your help and input is much appreciated!
Mark