On 11/05/10 00:00, Earl Melton wrote: > I was quite elated to learn that Impress allows outlining of any font > and, regardless of its color, automatically changes it to white with a > black (default) outline. Subsequently changing the font color [only] > changes the color of the outline/border. This would make it so much > easier to view hymn lyrics on slides with a background picture > containing both dark areas and highlights. Hope my grammar is correct > there and easy to follow. > > Problem is that my church uses a laptop with Win-XP and PowerPoint on > it. Evidently, PP makes no allowance for the outlining and fonts which > looked absolutely beautiful in Impress -- even when saved as ppt files > -- are merely the font in whatever color it's set to with no outlining > when shown in PP. I don't know if the church will let me install OOo > on it, and even if they did, the slideshow has to be imported into a > church projection program called Media Shout. I have my doubts that it > will import an odp. Would anybody know about that? Alternatively, does > anybody know where I could just download a white, Arial- or > Tahoma-type font with a dark outline? I've thought that I had found > several, but they only look white on the website in Firefox and when > used, they're hollow. That won't work. > > Any ideas? Is this about as clear as mud? > Here is something that works, sort of, since I just tried it.
You want a hollow font, i.e. the background color or image shows through the font. You create an image of the text you want as a GIF file with the background color set as the transperent one. I just created an image with the background as transperent. Then I typed in the text I wanted for that slide. Make sure the text image is set for 150 or 300 DPI to make the "outline" of the text look as smooth as possible. Use what ever font color you want, say light blue to show up on a dark slide. With the image having its background as transperent, and saving it as a GIF file with that transperency intacked. Then import it into your presentation. The background shows through the hollow parts of the font. As I said, I just tested it out myself. I used a dark color for Bookman Outline when creating the image of the text. Then imported it into my slide with a yellow background. The yellow showed though the hollow parts of the text just fine. This may not be the best solution, but it works. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
