Suggestion for how to make text more legible with line in background?
I want to create a dashed line that connects a bunch of text located inside a text box. However, the dashed line seems to conflict a bit with the text visually, making it difficult to read. I sent the line to the back and put small white rectangles behind the text to block the line, though I am going to have lots of these, and it is a pain. Anyone have any other suggestions?
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The white stroke is more a movie sub title thing and like in the movies does not always work.
Try this and see if you like it
select the text with a selection tool
add a new fill of white and drag the fill below the characters in th appearance panel
the highlight the new fill in the appearance panel
then go to Effect>Convert to Shape>Rectangle
give it 2pts extra relative space
below with the new fill converted not visible
withe the new fill converted to a rectangle visible
The problem with this method and the extra stroke method is that they are not transparent and if you place an object below them you will see the stroke or
fill
You can vary the gaps and fills until you get the right combination but that might be very difficult unless you simply vary the placement of the text.
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OOness to this. For your future reference when you complete a program
and it consists of nothing but static methods you have done something
incorrectly.
As far as the code you do have goes some refactoring would be nice.
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too long and unwieldy. processData seems to be a program in an of
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programming. These terms and concepts can certainly be confusing to
new programmers so you may also want to consider finding yourself a
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