Mtext color and fill

[zodiacs]

Okay, very simple question. How do you make a mtext box with Black Font color and a White Fill color? Every time I try to do it, it just does not work. It usually just shows the mtext box as a blacked out rectangle. I have black background on Autcadas well. I've been trying to do this and it's really frustrating because it just seems as though I'm missing something very simple.

 

 

I'm doing this to make the font easier to see on top of a map picture, if anyone is wondering why.

[resullins]

The problem with what you're asking is that the colors are going to reverse if you print. Are you doing this solely for when you are looking in AutoCAD? Or are you planning on printing this?

[SLW210]

What color is the white you are using? Try 255,255,255

[zodiacs]

I'm planning to print it, would it be easier if I switched the autocad background to white?

[resullins]

Post a picture of where your text is. I think I may have a different suggestion.

[zodiacs]

Navy and Harbor.dwg

 

SLW210 - Tried it, it just changed the color name to "white" anyway.

 

RS - uploaded, basically, I want there to be a white "fill" color on Harbor.

 

uploaded both items.

Navy and Harbor.dwg

[resullins]

You have to send me the JPG too, it's a reference.

[SLW210]

I'm planning to print it, would it be easier if I switched the autocad background to white?

 

What exactly are you trying to do? You will normally use background mask for blocking out a portion of a drawing, giving the effect the text is breaking lines and circles etc., something to keep the text from getting covered in the drawing.

 

Doesn't matter what color your background, unless you have colored paper, it will be white when you print it. Use Print Preview to get a look at how it will print.

[resullins]

@SLW: That's what I was thinking... just use a wipeout field or something...

[zodiacs]

Yeah that's basically what I want to do. I'm typing a street name on a picture of a drawing form the aerial view (in this case, Harbor street). I want to be able to read the text easily, so instead of having the city landscape as the background, I want it to be white.

[resullins]

Use the command WIPEOUT. It will literally let you draw a field that will OMIT anything behind it. Meaning it will wipeout a portion of the JPG, and then you can just use MTEXT like normal in that space. Easy peezy lemon breazy.

[zodiacs]

Resullins - That would work, but sometimes I need to move the street names around. Wouldn't that command remove part of the jpeg permanently?

 

I guess it would be best just to invert my colors and see it as a black fill and white text on model and then have it show up the opposite on print out? I guess the end result is the most important anyway.

[resullins]

No. It is NOT permanent. As long as you have the WIPEOUT Frames turned on, you can select and move it just like any object. I usually create a NoPlot layer for the frames, and then just leave them on.

 

Seriously, just try it out.

[zodiacs]

Very cool, thanks for all the help guys. Much appreciated!

[qball]

If you're trying to plot to PDF there are sometimes problems with Wipeouts and Background / Text Masks. Such as making it all black.

Also, it might help to use Draworder to send the jpg to the back. Probably irrelevant in this case, but good to know.

[Organic]

I avoid wipeouts at all costs. As above, pdfs often result in problems with wipeouts.

 

Instead just set a background mask of color 255,255,255 (white; will actually print white) on your mtext object.