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Hi,

I'd like to know if it is possible to create outlined text and how.
By outlined text, I mean this:



(yellow body, dark blue outline).

I think this "style" exists in the pdf format.

Otherwise, how could I mimic it by making the character fatter (increasing the font size doesn't work) ?

Thanks

I forgot to mention that I use pdfSharp.

No clues?
Is it possible to do it or is it something planned in a later release?

TIA

Hi!

Can you provide a sample file with that text style?


Print the text several times at different positions.

Sample grid:
123
456
789

At positions 1, 3, 7, and 9 (or 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9) draw text in the outline color, at position 5 draw text in the inner color.

So if the normal text is to be at (100, 100) and you want an outline width of 1, draw the outline color at (99, 99), at (101, 99), at (99, 101), and at (101, 101), then draw the inner color at (100, 100).

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Thomas Hoevel
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Adobe Illustrator supports it, that's why I suppose there's a style of a sort. I'll check.


I'll try, but I fear it may not work with a 'o' for instance.

I tried your suggestion but it's not perfect.

I write the text in black in a circle around the white text.

Here's the result with 20 positions and 9 positions. The outline is "jagged". (What you see is the upper right corner of the 'g' letter).

Not perfect, but only visible at a high zoom level.

It seems that Illustrator converts the text to a path and then draws that path in PDF.

PDFsharp can do that, too.
See page 3 of the output file of this sample:
http://www.pdfsharp.net/wiki/Graphics-sample.ashx
(shame on me, I should know our samples)

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Thomas Hoevel
PDFsharp Team