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Xara's documentation shows paragraph color should fill the full width of the text box, regardless of the length of the text. When I apply paragraph color, it fills exactly the same width as text color does (though the color is a bit taller, presumably because I've added some space between paragraphs).
Am I missing something, or does the paragraph color not work as expected?
Sir Ger. You mentioned fill the width of the text block. I gather you want the text to change color only. After you text block is done, move off the box and click. Then re click the block and simply change the color, or select your text and apply color.
If your talking text on top of a rectangle, click the text block and change color. The text exists independently unless grouped with something.
A screen shot would help greatly.
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-Bill
right click in the text box and select paragraph border and background settings
click on the edit button opposite the bacground colour option which will open the colour editor
in the colour editor dropdown make sure you have local paragraph background selected - it sounds like you have local text background selected instead - then you can select/reselect your colour as necessary...
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You must be using it against a Text Line that is not covering multiple lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirGeremiah
If you include your text in a Text Column or Text Area, all should work.
There is a rare, degenerate state where the text area is smaller than the font height.
Acorn
Thanks Handrawn. I learned something today!Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
But there are some bugs, wihich limitates the function.
Greetings Werner
you are welcome :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bwood
I can't comment on the reported issues as I only use it for making notes for myself in a xar file and so far it has worked for me
I've done this (as well as with the right-click on the color selector at the bottom of the screen). The paragraph background is exactly the same width as the text background for some reason. It's a point or two taller (matching space between paragraphs), but exactly the same width. If I tab to the end of the text box, I can get the look I want, but of course that's still working just like text background.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
I left a word out. I'm changing the paragraph background color.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
humm - you could have run up against one of the issues mentioned, acorn is an expert here not me
if you post up a xar file that contains [just] a text box showing this behaviour we can check it
I too was referring to (Set) Paragraph Background.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirGeremiah
A screenshot perhaps?
Acorn
Werner, your wishlist:Quote:
Originally Posted by WSNetwork
#1. I too have asked for this.Quote:
1. The skew angle of horizontally and vertically skewed objects should be displayed and changeable in the info bar.It's now only horizontally displayed and will reset to 0 after a change. If I set it to 22° it should show 22°.
2. I want to change/display the size of rounded corners (rectangle, quickshape) in units (changed in any unit anddisplayed in current unit).
3. I want to insert the "number of pages" to set up a pagecouter like "Side 1 from 10".
4. Multiobjekt tools like "Multi-rotation-tool" and "Multi-scale-tool". Every objekt would be separetly changed in one go.
5. Relicate-tool (copy the selected objekt horizontally an vertically like a labels sheet).
6. Standard vector-fill (like the Hatch-Pro-Tool from ArtWorks).
#2. These are currently in the range [0..1] that align with CSS border-radius. Unfortunately Xara fails here as you may discover when you add wide Line widths; Xra renders as dimensions in pixels rather than percentages and get the calculation wrong. Also reported.
#3. Now available in XPro+ so it will get to your XDA in due course when Magix decides.
#4. Having this would be useful.
#5. XPro+ and possibly XDPXv19 has this with Smart Duplicate.
#6. Again in XPro+ and XDPXv19, we have the opportunity to have the results of intersecting Shapes as SVG. Xara has yet to achieve Repeating Fills that remain as vector, from which one could build up a hatch.
The Xara approach to handling text justification is a mess.
When you include Paragraph or Text Backgrounds, or worse Borders, the mash together highlights all the problems you have found.
Xara have to fix text handling first that works properly in PDF exports and HTML rendering.
I feel your pain.
Acorn
Here's the text box in question - thanks for taking a look. I deleted some of the tabs I'm using to force the color to be full-width (the ones with full-width color still have those tabs).Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
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deleted content - misposted
I'm not sure I understand the second line. Are those separate containers for text (separate from the text line, which I keep referring to as a text box)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
The line of text doesn't span the entire width (and none will - as you can see in the file I later posted, each entry is a single line). My understanding from the documentation (which used a single-line paragraph, as well) was that the paragraph background should always use the full available width, rather than the width of the text.
I also don't understand the reference to the font height.
I somehow replied that to you - it was a reply to a different post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
I left a word out. I'm changing the paragraph background color, not the color of the text.Quote:
Originally Posted by bwood
If you select the text Tool and just click and type, you create a Text Line; the more you type, the longer it gets.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirGeremiah
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
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....
Hello Acorn,
#5. Smart Duplicate is a beginning but not very usable. If I could define the horizontal distance to right (+) / left (-) and the vertical distance down (+) / up (-) than its perfect.
Now it is easier to set a distance in the properties, clone and move, clone and move and so on.
Werner
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).Quote:
Originally Posted by Acorn
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.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.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
Acorn