XaraDPX 19 - paragraph color

[SirGeremiah]

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?

[bwood]

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.

Welcome to TG.
-Bill

[handrawn]

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...

[bwood]

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...

Thanks Handrawn. I learned something today!

[WSNetwork]

But there are some bugs, wihich limitates the function.

Greetings Werner

[Acorn]

But there are some bugs, wihich limitates the function.
Greetings Werner

Werner, your wishlist:

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).

#1. I too have asked for this.
#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

[handrawn]

Thanks Handrawn. I learned something today!

you are welcome

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

[SirGeremiah]

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...

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.

[SirGeremiah]

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.

Welcome to TG.
-Bill

I left a word out. I'm changing the paragraph background color, not the color of the text.

[Acorn]

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?

You must be using it against a Text Line that is not covering multiple lines.

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