I have a problem blurring text in CorelDraw:
1. I put text on page.
2. With the text selected, I go to "Bitmaps", then "Convert to Bitmap".
3. Next I go to "Bitmaps", then "Blur" (which is highlighted), then I try to select one of the nine blur options, they are there but not highlighted, therefore I can't select them.
Help says to download the blur plugins. I have searched my software disks from X3 and X4 and can't find these plugins. Can't find them on my harddrive either.
Can someone please help me.
Thanks in advance.
You shouldn't have to install anything for those filters to work, as far as i can tell you're doing everything right. The only recommendation i can think of is to make sure its converting it to a bitmap by trying to change its colour or something like that. If it is in fact converting it to a bitmap and the filters aren't available to choose from i don't really know what else to try. Maybe someone else will have another suggestion, i'm sorry i couldn't be more help. If nobody answers you within a few days you might want to try tech support. Anyway, good luck.
Peace
Thanks for the reply and help ... I feel really foolish now ... I was shooting myself in the foot. Probably didn't select the item before trying to blur. Kinda like looking for my glasses when they are on me. Thanks again, Don
Happens to all of us from time to time. Glad you figured out your problem.
I was trying to blur some black text. The problem occured when I converted the text to bitmap. When I converted the vector to bitmap, I selected "Black & White (1-bit). I found out I couldn't use the "black & White (1-bit), 16 colors (4-bit), or Paletted (8-bit) choices and be able to "Blur" the text. The "Blur" functions only worked when I converted the vector to bitmap using the other three choices which are Greyscale (8-bit), RGB Color (24-bit), and CMYK Color (32-bit). Thanks again for your kind response.
This is the sort of thing that writers of help files never think to tell you, that you have to learn by going around in crazy circles.
You'll find a similar distinction in PhotoPaint: some things can be done to RGB files that can't to Palletted 8-Bit, and vice versa.