Re: MAGIX - MEP Titles

"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


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"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The ones I've saved from the Title Editor seem to keep
the separate fonts and colors, in the few I've just tried. This
is a new approach for me, remember.

That's surprised me! I'll have to take another hard look. Mine
definitely came back up all on colour and size. I'm wondering if it
has something to do with what was selected at the time you used save
As Template? If it *is* possible to capture these multiple elements,
that's great! Hmm - do hope that's not a newly added feature in
MEP-12, that I don't have in MEP-11...



I checked the data in my last multi-font, multi-color .tfx
file, using Hexplorer and see the same basic data structure
you posted earlier. In mine there is mention of the font
names and there are more color sets listed. The way they
look to have tagged the text for font and text color, is a
little less than I would expect, and I may not be looking at
it correctly. Still, both your post and what I see in my .tfx
files, suggests that the mechanisms to express the separate
settings are there and probably function the same. You
might want to try again.

Luck;
Ken



Another thing; since the text definition parts of the .tfx files
are the same as used in .rtf files. (In fact you can load an .rtf
file on track 3 and it will be seen as a title.)

You could find it easier to get an understanding of how the
Font \f#, Font Size \fs##, Font Color \cf# entries and the
color table work to define the text, in both .rtf and .tfx files;
by working with .rtf files. You can use workpad to create
and make changes to an .rtf, then use notepad to view it in
ascii. (You might note that the color listing in Wordpad
looks the same as the color listing you get in the Font
selection area of the Title Editor.)

Thanks Ken. I'm still having great difficulty getting consistent
results though! I had it just right, with a yellow header and white
detail below. But then at my next attempt, repeating what seemed the
identical procedure, the text disappeared. In fact it hadn't, it had
just become black against a black background (or white against white -
it's all a bit blurred now after several hours!). Then I fixed that -
but now the header is light grey! I'll come back to it tomorrow, but
for now I just can't figure out what's happening.

Using Advanced and switching to a white background changed my white
text to black. (BTW, does it matter what is selected at the time you
click Advanced?)

Earlier, before reading your post, I had in fact been experimenting
with using RTF files. Today I made a couple, with multi-coloured text.
They are called
TestRTFforMEP-1.rtf and TestRTFforMEP-2double.rtf
I've posted them here:
http://www.speedyshare.com/756800331.html

The second is just a '2 column' version of the first, to make it more
compact when viewed.

Obviously, these are test files, and I wouldn't in practice expect to
use more than 2 or maybe 3 colours in a single title, not 40! But I
get some odd results there too. I'd like to report exactly what, but
here again I seem to get inconsistent behaviour. I'm beginning to
think there are several variables involved, including conceivably the
*order* in which you do things!

I haven't returned to the template aspect yet.

--
Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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