How to create a textbox where the font style is outline

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Sun, 01/05/2014 - 11:04 pm


I am trying to simply draw some text in a blank graph, and I would like to use the outline style, where the letters have a border, like a black border around white letters. Here is some example code, where the "fstyle = 8" sets the style as outline. I have tried it with Helvetica, Geneva and Arial. If I use "fstyle = 4" I can get the words to be underlined, so I know the code is working, but am I doing something wrong to achieve outline. I tried it in a textbox and it doesn't work either.

I am using Mac OS 10.6.8 and the Igor Reference indicates that outline style is for Macs only. Any help would be great.

SetDrawEnv xcoord= abs,ycoord= abs
SetDrawEnv textxjust= 0,textyjust= 0,fsize= FontSize
SetDrawEnv fstyle= 8
DrawText text_x0, text_y0, dateText
The outline style is obsolete now; it was a hold-over from the days of QuickDraw, which Igor has largely abandoned since about Igor 6 or so.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

January 6, 2014 at 11:49 am - Permalink

Thanks. It is handy for displaying text on an image regardless of the background color. But I suppose I can use a text box with a background color.

January 6, 2014 at 01:55 pm - Permalink

You could always download an outline font face and use it.

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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville

January 7, 2014 at 09:43 am - Permalink