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  1. #1
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    Unhappy repel text feature

    Never thought I'd see the day but it has arrived. I have a graphic project where someone wants me to organize 20 paragraphs of body copy into the form of a large capital letter A. I thought this would be easy by using the repel text feature. No luck. Any suggestions on how I could get the repel text feature to work in this fashion????

    Thanks from Chicago, Il, USA!

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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Hey Madd, Hello from North Aurora, IL.

    I'll bet it can be done, for sure. Perhaps you'll have to make invisible objects for your text to repel from to form the A, but someone here will know how. No fear.
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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Thanks Burpee! I hope so.

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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Have a look at this thread This is the only way at present.
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    Default Re: repel text feature

    I can't get the text to repel at all, away from any shape. I just watched the Xara video about new features in XX4 and it shows that it can. I grouped these, ungrouped them, tried just one part of the objects but no go.

    I thought perhaps you could build your shape, have it repel, then give them invisible fills.
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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Here's the trick
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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Use a large capital A and subtract it from a large rectangle. The repelling shape looks like a capital A but is in fact a large rectangle with the text repelling in the holes ...

    Darn it, Sledger beat me too it....

    Well, so much for that, I can't make it work anyway ...... Okay, I finally did ...
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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Works nicely with a photo background too.

    Just make sure your repelling 'mask' has 99.5% transparency applied.
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  9. #9
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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Thanks for the help guys! Problem solved....at least to a point of workability

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    Default Re: repel text feature

    Just in case you need a step-by-step...
    Last edited by Big Frank; 16 April 2009 at 01:24 PM.
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