Placing words

[Sierra Rose]

Since I've only been drawing and painting, I haven't used a lot of TVP's functions yet. I seem to remember there was an effect panel that helped you place words...you could copy and paste from a word processor?

I'm helping an 87 year old woman publish a story book with her original paintings (wonderful) and it would be so much easier to put the words of the story in if I didn't have to do it one line at a time in the word editor in TVP. Is there another way?

PS: I did look in the manual, no luck. Also I tried to copy the words from Word and "get brush from clipboard" but that didn't work.

[ZigOtto]

hi Sierra,

FX Stack/ Rendering/ Multiline Text/ Import Text from ... Clipboard.

take care to previously set the font/size/color/... with a single (full) line of the text,
so you can make it fit horizontally with your project width (and background),
then, import all your multilined text by copying it + "Import Text from Clipboard".
(delete your fisrt test-line if twice)

(english manual : 16-27 and 28 for lay-out adjustement of the page)

[Sierra Rose]

Thanks..I found it, but it shows my text only as white even though I have set the font color and the border to the right colors (black with a one pixel border of burandy). Do you know how to get it to accept my right font color?

[Sierra Rose]

I discovered it is coloring my text...but only the first line, everything else is white. How can I get it to color all the text at the same time?

[Hervé]

I discovered it is coloring my text...but only the first line, everything else is white. How can I get it to color all the text at the same time?

Import text use the current line parameters ( size, color...). Create a new text line, set his color and size, and after import your clipboard.

[ZigOtto]

yes, make your font settings with a (test)line of the text as a first step,
then, and only after these settings done, import your full text.
All the lines will keep the same settings than the last line.
(at last, remove the doubloon line which served you as template.)
(I suppose my english "warning" wasn't very explicit there)

...
take care to previously set the font/size/color/... with a single (full) line of the text,
so you can make it fit horizontally with your project width (and background color),
then, import all your multilined text by copying it + "Import Text from Clipboard".

[Sierra Rose]

But as soon as I click on a different line, the settings revert to default (white with red border) and I have to reset again.

[ZigOtto]

But as soon as I click on a different line, the settings revert to default (white with red border) and I have to reset again.

weird ... it works fine here,
you must have done something wrong ... if the settings reverted to default, you shouldn't get a red border (default = no border).
haven't you any other FX enable in the stack ?
can you describe exactly (step by step) what you do ?

[Sierra Rose]

I've been wondering lately if I need to do a reinstall. For instance: when I try to get an icon for a custom panel, I get this weird thing--see attachment

It doesn't let me really see the icons as they are so small (surrounded by so much background).

I have other little glitches....can't think of them right now. I'm so "nose to the grindstone" it takes me forever to just stop and consider that I have a recurring problem.

You always seem to know your way around the software better than anyone...what do you think?

[Peter Wassink]

I'm helping an 87 year old woman publish a story book with her original paintings (wonderful) and it would be so much easier to put the words of the story in if I didn't have to do it one line at a time in the word editor in TVP. Is there another way?

Have you considered using more dedicated software for this?
TVP may be the best for animating but it was not made for creating story books.

I'm not an expert on this, but a program like Adobe indesign or even Microsoft Word may make your task much easier?

[ZigOtto]

... For instance: when I try to get an icon for a custom panel, I get this weird thing--see attachment
It doesn't let me really see the icons as they are so small (surrounded by so much background).

... never seen that before !
it looks like the icons-sheet preview is based on the biggest icons (the 3 biggest ones right side),
have you manually stored these icons in the icons folder* ? ... and can you check their real size ?
(the custom tool's icons must not have bigger size than 24x24pix or so...).


* C:\Documents and Settings\your Window ID\Application Data\tvp animation 9 pro\default\icons\

[Sierra Rose]

Peter: Well, yes, we did the words in Word and I was wanting to import them so as not to have to go through all the bother of line by line in TVP.

It's not that hard to use the TVP word editor and the story is not that long, I just thought the effect would make it easier. Just being lazy.

ZigOtto: that's it probably, I probably forgot to click "custom brush" when I saved so I got the whole screen. Thanks sooo much. My husband just had (his fourth) eye surgery so we are upside down in our schedule and awake at 3:30 here. How nice to get immediate answers like this.

[Sierra Rose]

That was it Zig Otto....3 icons were 97x97...Thanks....