.
.Do you have the z-order correct? The bitmap must be below the grouped
.text/rectangle.
.
.-Rob A>
.
.
.
.On 6/23/08,
loscotec@...844... <
loscotec@...844...> wrote:
.> Thanks Rob, but.. did you try it? Is it working for you? It doesn't for me.
.> Neither in home computer, nor in the one I have got where I work..
.>
.> As far as i use some text, grouped or not with some background, the bitmap
.> just disappears completely when masking it. I tryied many combinations,
.> white text black background, black text white background, with gradients et
.> cetera.. nothing working .. :(
.>
.> Lucio
.>
.>
.> .Draw a black rectangle the same size as the bitmap.
.> .Put your text on top of this, in white.
.> .
.> .Group the black rectangle and the white text.
.> .
.> .Select the image and the group, then Object->Mask->Set
.> .
.> .This will give you the bitmap with the text "cut out" from it.
.> .
.> .(You will have to release the mask to be able to edit the text in the
.> .group).
.> .
.> .-Rob A>
.> .
.> .On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:05 AM, loscotec@...2544...:
.> .
.> .> Hello everybody!
.> .>
.> .> Does anybody know how to use text as object-mask?
.> .>
.> .> I need to cut a text in a picture so that the text would actually be
.> .> transparent!
.> .>
.> .> The goal is easily achieved converting text in path, and grouping it with
.> a
.> .> background, and then using it as a mask for the picture. But in this way
.> I'm
.> .> loosing the chance to change what is written in a second moment.
.> .>
.> .> Reading some references, I saw that text objects should work as any other
.> .> objects about masking, but they they don't.
.> .>
.> .> What am I missing?
.> .>
.> .> Lucio
.> .
.>
.> .. Caminante no hay
.> camino, solo se hace
.> camino al andar ..
.>
.>
.> --- o
.> meglio ---
.>
.> .. Caminante el
.> destino no es al
.> final de el viaje,
.> pero en todo el
.> andar ..
.>
.>
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