Re: solid fill behind text possible??

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> hi,
>
>   I'm trying to get a solid fill behind text in dia v0.90 This is for
> objects that have a text attached to the bottom when you have lines
> joining to a handle above the text.  The lines obscure the text.  In
> Visio you can choose the background of the text and I've used that option
> to set a background text colour of solid white.
>
> I can't see an option for this anywhere.  Is it possible?

There is no explicit background color for text, you'd have to make a
white-bordered box behind it.

-Lars

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