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?

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.

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!"

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.

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

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

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."

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.