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 .
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