Rosemary A Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 How do I apply an outline around Text? eg like the video example "Many facets of PTE." Also is it possible to select a text colour at the beginning of a project and have the colour maintained throughout the project or do I have to select the colour every time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 Hi Rosemary, The outline you see in the video was done by the style created by Manuel (MUR) called "Cut Out" - There are no provisions in PTE for directly creating an outline (called "strike" in Photoshop) around your text. The easiest way is to create your text in Photoshop and apply a "strike" in your choice of colors and/or sizes. There are ways to use text in PTE where you create the same word in a different color and size. You do it one letter at a time rather than an entire word. You then duplicate the character in a slightly larger size and different color and place the one you want to outline with on the layer beneath the one to be outlined. You can also use "bold" to make the outlined layer slightly larger and brighter, but if you are just beginning to learn PTE, I would strongly recommend you do outlines by "strike" using Photoshop or other text editor then transfer that text as a PNG file with transparency to PTE. To select a text color at the beginning of a project rather than do it individually on each slide you must do it through "text comment." You select "Project" "Project Options" then "Defaults." Click on "Customize Fonts" button then choose font, color and size and any other characteristics desired and when finished click on "Apply to All Slides." Then enter your text for the slide as a "Text Comment" and go to Objects and Animations to position and size the text as desired by manipulating the object "Text Comment" there. Best regards, Lin Please substitute the correct word "Stroke" wherever you see "strike" above .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 I think that Lin possibly meant "Stroke" DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 LOL - Absolutely "Stroke" - I had one and am reluctant to use that word !!! Yes, Rosemary - not "strike" but "stroke" in Photoshop.. Best regards, Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 Firstly, congratulations on the recovery from the stroke. A lot of hard work and determination. Let's hope I can apply the same to PTE... I am disappointed about the lack of outline ability in PTE as I tend to use text on images during my shows. The outline makes the text easier to read. However onwards... Thanks for the instruction re maintaining the text colour. I shall use it a lot! Thank you once again, Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 Rosemary, There IS one other way you can make a text outline in PTE. It's certainly not as good as "Stroke" in Photoshop, but you may want to try it. Here's a screenshot from PTE 9, same with PTE 10. Use it as shown in the picture. You can, of course change the color from black to any other... Best regards, Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 You could try playing with Customised Shadow styles to produce a Pseudo Stroke Line? Not perfect, but it might satisfy your needs temporarily until Igor can get around to improving Text in the next versions. Apply this Style to a blank Slide: Text Stroke.ptestyle DG Lin beat me to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 Thank you both. Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 BTW, Since Version 10 you can Save Font and Colour etc attributes for a project via the link at the bottom of the Text Box. See below. https://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/10.0/how_to_v10/add_text#add_a_text_object Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 Great tip, Thank you, Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 6, 2020 Report Share Posted January 6, 2020 Hi Rosemary, Sorry I gave you outdated information. My newer Windows system has been down for a while for installation of a new video card and a new display and I completely forgot that Igor had made this new text feature allowing a different default for font, color, etc., You no longer need to use Text Comment to make these changes universal. They will stay from project to project until you change the default. Best regards, Lin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 No problem Lin. I have just finished a 5 min. show. Needs some tweaking but gets the message across. Thanks everyone Till the next question Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUR Posted January 7, 2020 Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 Hi Rosemary You can also do this MUR As a comment, I use the free version of Photoshop, the very old CS2, that is my the default image editor in PTE (Download it from Adobe site) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 7, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2020 Thanks MUR, I shall try this too. I do like my outline around text! Rosemary That looks great! Thanks a million. Will be useful for Title Slides too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Rosemary, Here is a quick style I created for you. Select all slides you wish to type text in BEFORE putting in any text and apply this style. It will outline the text I have created and place it on each slide selected. Just go to Objects and Animations and replace the text I have with the text you wish. Apply any font or whatever your defaulted font, size, position, animation, etc., and it will all be outlined. Best regards, Lin Outline Text.ptestyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Good Morning Lin, Thank you for this style. Unfortunately whatever I am doing the attached screen shot happens. I have selected the 3 slides and then apply the style. Unfortunately the style creates more slides! Help because that would solve my problem. Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted January 8, 2020 Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Hi Rosemary, I suspect you have selected the wrong style This looks like Dave's demo style which shows you "how" to do this and creates two slides... My style once you import it should be found under the category Lin's Text... Try downloading it and installing it again.. Here it is... Best regards, Lin Outline Text.ptestyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosemary A Posted January 8, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2020 Lin, you are absolutely correct. Works beautifully. I really appreciate you doing this for me. Rosemary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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