Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!think!husc6!m2c!umvlsi!dime!lee From: lee@quincy.cs.umass.edu (Peter Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: White text in Canvas 2.0 (query) Message-ID: Date: 3 May 90 19:12:07 GMT References: <29329@ut-emx.UUCP> <3634@newton.physics.purdue.edu> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Organization: /u/zoo/lee/.organization Lines: 43 In-reply-to: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu's message of 3 May 90 04:34:45 GMT In article <3634@newton.physics.purdue.edu> cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) writes: From: cca@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Summary: easily done in Canvas 2.1 Date: 3 May 90 04:34:45 GMT References: <29329@ut-emx.UUCP> Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept, W.Lafayette, IN >> I am futilely attempting to create white text in Canvas 2.0. > Try setting the typestyle of the text to outline, and setting the fill for > the text object to nil. I haven't tried this with Canvas 2.0, but it works > with several other programs. I don't have 2.0 around any more, but in Canvas 2.1 you can do this by selecting the text object and setting: * fill pattern - white * foreground color - black * background color - white Unfortunately, this only works with QuickDraw output devices (like the screen). If you attempt to print the file out on a PostScript printer, you get black text on a white background. Every other attempt I've made to get white text on a black background has printed out a solid black rectangle. In the end, I had to use PageMaker to get the inverted text (I was able to import the rest from Canvas). Note: if you choose the postscript 'display' option, you can get white text on-screen, but it still won't print out that way on the Laserwriter. Canvas is my favorite graphics program for the Mac, and I've been using it since version 1.1, but the inability to print white text on a postscript printer REALLY frustrates me. The inability to emulate other quickdraw features when printing postscript, especially simple bitmaps, also bugs me alot... -- |- Peter E. Lee, Staff Assistant -| | Software Development Lab at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst | | lee@cs.umass.edu or Fuligin@umass.bitnet or (413) 549-6366 | |_ "Putting a Spoke in the Ear of the Unguarded" _|