Text or Object Outline or Stroke???

[mvolpone]

Hi guys,

Does Web Designer 365 have a way to add an outline or stroke to text or an object?

Thanks in advance,

Mike

[iamtheblues]

Hi Mike,
I don't have the Web flavour of Xara, but the XDP uses 2 ways of applying a stroke to text.
1. The line tool (arrowed and highlighted in red in my attachment)
2. The Contour tool.

The weapon of choice though has to be the Contour tool. If you examine the two text lines, the blue text uses the Line and the red text uses the Contour tool.
You'll notice that in the blue version the line actually obscures the text as the line appears half in front of the text, making an ugly distortion of the text,
but using the Contour tool, the line is placed fully behind the text.
Bob.

[cmpan1]

Then there's (what might be considered a third way/option) ... using the 'Line Gallery'.
You can do some artistic type outlines and vary line widths and colors.

Cliff

[mvolpone]

Thank you for your help.

Mike

[Egg Bramhill]

But of course adding a stroke to text is meaningless if it's for web application. html doesn't accommodate strokes on text. You'll need to convert it to an image if you want this effect.

[cmpan1]

True with 'regular' outline... but not so for an outline created with the 'line gallery'... or a 'contour' outline.

[Egg Bramhill]

That's because the text is converted to a bitmap I believe. Not home at present so I can't test this though

[mvolpone]

When I use the stroke or line gallery, the outline does not show up on the web page. And the Contour tool is nowhere to be found in Web Designer Pro 12. Is there any way to add a strok, outline, contour and have it show up on th website with my software??

Thanks,

Mike

[handrawn]

like egg said - html, the code that a website is made from, does not support outlines on text; you need to make it a bitmap [image] for this to show, maybe svg [vector image] will do it as well

there is no such program as web designer pro - if you mean web designer premium that does not have all the drawing tools that designer pro X has

[roly]

Hi Mike, see attachment, is this what you want? If so, there is a way with the shadow tool, just let me know and I will send instructions.

Ciao

Roly