Rotate White Text and - PRESTO - Gone!

[kenneth2k1]

Does anyone know why when I rotate text and change the color to white, the text disappears? I can change it back to black and it will be there, but not white.

What the hell is that?? You can't have rotated white text?

[Helpful Harry]

Weird!

I've no idea why it does it, but you can use the ligthest grey instead and your text stays visible - I'm not sure how that would look if you're going to be printing on a mono printer though.

[kenneth2k1]

Yep. Noticed that when I was messing around with it. Guess I will have to use the real light gray.

Just thought that was dumb. "Nothin hidden up my sleeve!"

[Helpful Harry]

If it's not going to be changed, you could always make the text up in another application as a graphic and paste / import it into FileMaker.

[kenneth2k1]

Which would had to have happeded because if I remember right, the Web Companion using IWP will not render it rotated anyways.

'tis all in vain. I just changed the interface alltogether.

Thanks for the thoughts though

Ken

[SteveB]

Ken, do you remember that somebody came up with the ability to have a transparent graphic by rotating a field 90 degrees, inserting a graphic, and then rotating back again? It some stupid FM quirk.

Steve

[kenneth2k1]

Yeah, I seem to remember that was a fairly recent posting.

It is definitely a wierd quirk. We had a big roll out of one of the systems I created, and my boss was nervous-looking. I asked him "What, you dont trust me?" He said "No, I don't trust programs." I said "I dont trust programmers, so I dont trust myself."

[Helpful Harry]

There's a similar trick in Adobe PageMaker. Some images won't appear as transparent, so you rotate them 0.01 degrees and suddenly they are transparent.