How do you print WHITE text?

[Jason Penrose]

This may sound like a dumb question, however, I can't print text in
WHITE. I am making a sign and I am trying to make the letters color
255, on a dark background. If you use color 7, it prints black. The
text just doesn't show up like it is on layer Defpoints or something.
I have tried exploding the text, making it an attribute, making the
dark color a jpg, messing with display order......nothing works.

any ideas?
JP

[B C Jones]

I have used the BONUS, EXPLODE TEXT, (txtexp.lsp) and used a solid hatch as
the field color.

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[Glenn Seibert, regenesis]

In article <37291931...@texas.net>, jpen...@texas.net says,...

> This may sound like a dumb question, however, I can't print text in
> WHITE. I am making a sign and I am trying to make the letters color
> 255, on a dark background. If you use color 7, it prints black. The
> text just doesn't show up like it is on layer Defpoints or something.
> I have tried exploding the text, making it an attribute, making the
> dark color a jpg, messing with display order......nothing works.
>
> any ideas?
> JP

Are you using WHITE ink? (Is there such a thing?)
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[Thomas Proppe]

You can't give color 255 to Truetype-Fonts. But you can give any other color
and redirect to color 255 in plotting dialog -> pen settings. That is the
way it worked. And if you're plootting to a HP-plotter which is able to
'merge' (mix) colors, you have to disable that feature in hpconfig or
plotter.

Thomas Proppe

Jason Penrose schrieb in Nachricht <372B1843...@texas.net>...
>There isn't such a thing, however all I need if for autocad to print the
>absence of ink. I am printing a dark blue background with the white text
on
>top. Autocad just needs to "not print" the text and the white paper will
be
>the "white ink". That is where color 255 should come in. However, it is
not
>working.
>
>anyway, thanks
>JP

[Seymour Dupa]

One way to print WHITE is on a BLACK background.

Did you pick 255 because it prints white on Autocad's color chart? It's
*not* white - it's *invisible*. I can see lines colored 255 on my screen,
but when I plot, they dissapear.

John

> "Glenn Seibert, regenesis" wrote:
>> In article <37291931...@texas.net>, jpen...@texas.net says,...
>> > This may sound like a dumb question, however, I can't print text in
>> > WHITE. I am making a sign and I am trying to make the letters color
>> > 255, on a dark background. If you use color 7, it prints black. The
>> > text just doesn't show up like it is on layer Defpoints or something.
>> > I have tried exploding the text, making it an attribute, making the
>> > dark color a jpg, messing with display order......nothing works.
>> >
>> > any ideas?
>> > JP
>>
>> Are you using WHITE ink? (Is there such a thing?)
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>> Thanks,
>> Glenn
>> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>> Glenn Seibert
>> regenesis computer technologies
>> Visio Business Partner
>> AUGI #5023
>> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

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[Thomas Proppe]

May be, but color 7 is shown white on dark screen as 255.
They define 7 as printed black and 255 as white. How this is handled
depends on the plotter or printer.
First draw a red solid then a line with 255 over it. If you plot this and
the printer did not mix the colors (In HP Plotters you can check or uncheck
merging colors) you have a white line over the solid.
Just true type can't be set directly to color 255.

Thomas Proppe

Seymour Dupa schrieb in Nachricht <1Q4Y2.311$Sd.21...@news.en.com>...