Erasing the background of text objects

You can erase the background of individual text and system text objects, for example, to ensure the text remains legible when crossing barlines. You can do this for the current layout and frame chain only or for all layouts and frame chains.

Prerequisite

You have chosen the appropriate property scope for local properties.

Procedure

  1. In Engrave mode, select the text objects whose backgrounds you want to erase.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Erase background in the Text group.

Result

The backgrounds of the selected text objects are erased. If the property scope was set to Locally, this change only takes effect in the current layout and frame chain.

Tip
  • You can show borders on text objects in addition to erasing their backgrounds.

  • Deactivating Erase background returns the selected text objects to the default non-erased background.

Example

Figure 1. Text with non-erased background
Figure 2. Text with erased background

After Completing This Task

You can change the padding between text objects and each edge of their erased areas.