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cut outline help in x3 please
Hi all, without being stroppy or telling me off about spelling could somebody please explain how to put a cut line around text which has a border around it,….for example….I have the text with a 2mm yellow border around it but when i try to put the cut contour around it it just changes the yellow border to my cut contour,….I’ve tried loads of different ways apart from the right way!!! hope this makes sense!
Cheers
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Steve
Convert the text and contour(border) to curves, break contour group apart, then add another contour.
If I got your description correct?Peter
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I use the rectangle tool
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Peter…..Big thumbs up…Thanks…..what i need to do is some text with a drop shadow but cant just layer the text on top of the background text as i need a white outline around the text at the front if this makes sense! Will this work on the background text as well so it dosent cut the whole letters out?…just the text thats showing and not hid behind the foreground text??
Cheers….glad to see your back on the ball and not hungover from the sign show!! 😀 -
think i know what you mean, but how the hell to explain it i don’t know.
try a file in the file swapping bit.chris
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I think I get what you are asking. If you convert everything to curves as Peter mentioned, then break apart and ungroup everything. Then select everything and use the "create boundary" tool, to the right of the back minus front button. This creates an object around everything that you have selected, but only around the outside and ignores the bits of the text underneath that you cannot see. Hope this helps.
Kev
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