Text area only exporting as png - bug?

[Yellosub]

While working on a website in Xtreme Pro 5 for a friend recently, I noticed that text areas were constantly exported as png's instead of text.

It took me quite some time to find out why: I had applied 'ellipse' as default stroke shape before and forgot to reset it. Thus the (invisible) borders of my text areas also inherited this shape and as a consequence were exported as graphics. Setting stroke shape to 'constant' solved the problem.

Is it a bug or a feature I just don't understand?

Just wanted to share this, as I'm probably not the only one running into this problem.

Regards,
Hubert

[ruffino]

This happened to me until someone here pointed out to me I enhanced the text with shadowing and the like. When you do that it creates an image file not a text. So remove the special effects and you will have text.
Hope this helps

[steve.ledger]

Browsers can only render fonts as fonts because they use the font which is installed on the persons computer viewing your site (which is why you can only use a limited selection of font faces, known as 'web safe')

If you start customising/decorating a font then there is no other recourse than to export it as an image to maintain WYSIWYG.

[Yellosub]

I'm not sure whether I was clear with my description before. I'm of course aware that applying any effect to my fonts causes export as a graphic.

Actually I was not aware that I did anything to my text at all because the border of a text area is invisible. I only had been drawing other elements of the site before with an ellipse stroke shape. To me it was not obvious, that creating a text area would also be affected by this attribute.

[steve.ledger]

Well in that case it shouldn't be.

Please supply your file so we can check why this happened. Thanks

[Yellosub]

Here's my file. I removed most of unrelevant contents to keep the upload small.
Thanks for looking at it.

Regards Hubert