Feature Request: Text Outline

[stevenljacobsen]

Text outline would be very helpful. Our group uses backgrounds that have dramatic contrast. An outline helps define the character when it lands upon a background of the same color. I'm using Shadow right now but since it is only one sided it isn't as good as it could be. A simple solid line with width and color options would be great!

[gitbrent]

Hi @stevenljacobsen,

Text Outline turned out to be pretty trivial to add - thanks for the suggestion.

outline has two options: size (pt) and color.

slide.addText(
    "Text Outline",
    {
        x:7.5, y:6.5, w:'40%', h:0.6,
        fontSize:32, color:'0088cc', outline:{size:1.5, color:'00DD00'}
    }
);

[stevenljacobsen]

Awesome! I'll download and test it out!

[stevenljacobsen]

I pulled down the new code and added the outline options and that works. But I'm having an issue with the font size now.

In this code the font defaults to 12p in the generated PPTX filet:
var optLyrics = {color: lyricscolor, marginPt: 0, border: [0, 0, 0, 0], align: 'center', valign: 'middle', font_size: lyricssize,
font_face: lyricsfont, bold: lyricsbold};
slide.addTable([[{text: songPPTdata[z]['title'], opts: optLyrics}]], {x: 0.01, y: 0.01, cx: slidewidth, cy: slideheight});

And in this code it defaults to 18pt:
slide.addText(slidetext, {x: 0.01, y: 0.01, cx: slidewidth, cy: slideheight, color: lyricscolor,
align: 'center', valign: 'middle', font_size: lyricssize, font_face: lyricsfont, bold: lyricsbold,
italics: lyricsitalic, outline: {size: .5, color: '000000'}
});
I logged the variables to console and they show the correct values but don't seem to

[gitbrent]

Many option names changed in 2.0 and wont work...

Use: fontSize, fontFace and use w for cw and h for cy

[stevenljacobsen]

Got it! Much better! Thanks!