Text or Object Outline or Stroke???

**ss-kalm** · 01 May 2017, 01:12 AM

My favourite for this has always been the shadow tool ... This was done with the shadow tool in Web Designer 9 Premium

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Although as has been mentioned before, as far as I'm aware it must be a bitmap to be added to a web page as an image. HTML won't let you work like that with text.

**Egg Bramhill** · 01 May 2017, 01:28 AM

All you're doing again there Roly is creating a bitmap. The only shadow effect that you can use in Xara and ensure the text remains as text is a Wall shadow.

**ss-kalm** · 01 May 2017, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

... The only shadow effect that you can use in Xara and ensure the text remains as text is a Wall shadow.

I don't follow that Egg. Do you mean that text will still be text in the HTML? or within Xara?

My example is still text in Xara and uses glow shadows ... it still edits with the text editor ... or am I on a different page here?

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**Egg Bramhill** · 01 May 2017, 02:34 AM

Hi Keith. No, I mean text can't have a stroke on a website, nor a shadow (apart from a wall shadow). If you want it to, it needs to be converted to a bitmap and is therefore not readable by search engines.

I think the thread is getting somewhat confused but I'm answering the op's question:

When I use the stroke or line gallery, the outline does not show up on the web page.

**roly** · 01 May 2017, 03:52 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

All you're doing again there Roly is creating a bitmap. The only shadow effect that you can use in Xara and ensure the text remains as text is a Wall shadow.

Hi Egg, I dont quite get what you are saying. In my example in post #10 you can change the font to any other font, if it were a bitmap you could not. What am I missing here? Thanks for your patience.

Ciao

Roly

**handrawn** · 01 May 2017, 07:28 AM

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[edit - forget that, like egg said seems this thread is getting confused between shadow and outline requirements]

**Acorn** · 01 May 2017, 11:13 AM

Another method is clone the text area, change the topmost text colour to the needed foreground.
Use the Feather tool and alter the Profile to suit.

The advantage is you get both an image and the original text.

Acorn

**mvolpone** · 02 May 2017, 07:26 PM

That's awesome Roly. How do I do this?????

Thanks,

Mike

**mvolpone** · 02 May 2017, 07:31 PM

Acorn,
I can't find the Shape Editor Tool. How do I bring it up??

Thanks,

Mike

**roly** · 02 May 2017, 08:47 PM

Hi Mike, see the attachment for explanations on how to do. Let us know if this works for you. Oupps, the attachment feature is not working for me at this time, as soon as I can I will put the attachment in, sorry.

Question for moderator, is it just for me that the attachment feature is not working or is it a glitch in your application?

Ciao

Roly