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Hi

I have create a picture with text on it. The picture has light and dark colors and therefor i want the border of the text to be white and the text can be any color except white. When you tick the border option in the character option boks, the border take the color of the original text and the text changes to white. Is there a way that i can keep my original text color when changing the border color to any other color? It would by nice if one can. I don't want to use any MS Office software and it would be nice if Open Office can do the color changing.

Hope someone can help

Johannes

I don't follow you. What component are you using? Writer, Draw, Impress? What OOo version, I guess you're running Windows. Please read the Survival Guide for the forum.

Is your text in a frame? a text box?

I am using Calc and my OS is win XP. I have a picture and in the picture you can write text when you use the select tool from the drawing toolbar, you can select the picture and then write text onto the picture in the picture frame. If you use the Character tool from the Text formatting toolbar, there are 3 tabs available. Font,Font Effects and Font position. When you choose Font Effects, you can add a Outline or shadow to the text. When you choose the outline option, the text turn to white and the outline of the text become the original colour of the text. I want the color of the text to remain the original color and the outline color must be white or any other color without having an effect on the text color.

I fear it's hard coded. Seems to be the same with MS Word 2003 BTW.

NB: I move the thread to the Setup and Troubleshouting forum.

If you are sufficiently motivated, and don't have a lot of text that needs the border effect, you can do it manually in Draw.

1) Create the text object
2) Copy & paste the text object (you now have two copies exactly overlaid)
3) Modify > Convert > To Curve (one of the texts is now just an outline)
4) Modify > Arrange > Send Backward (now the outline text is below the normal text)
5) Format > Line > Thickness = xx (adjust the thickness visually)

You now have a separate outline and text, so you can adjust the colors and appearance any way you like. If you move the outline slightly, on a diagonal, you get a shadow effect.

It's not as complicated as it sounds: each step is very simple to do.

The problems with this are: a) it has to be done manually, b) if you change the text, you have to re-create the border from scratch, and c) OOo cannot render the outline well: it appears jagged and rather ugly.

Once you create the figure in Draw, you can group it, then copy/paste into any other OOo application.