topic How to create parallelogram shaped text object ? in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390973#M422901 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All ,</P><P></P><P>How to create parallelogram shaped text object ?</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="parallelogram.PNG" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/174805_parallelogram.PNG" style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /></P><P></P><P>Thank &amp; Regards</P><P>Shekar</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:57:54 GMT shekhar_analyti 2017-08-28T02:57:54Z How to create parallelogram shaped text object ? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390973#M422901 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi All ,</P><P></P><P>How to create parallelogram shaped text object ?</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="parallelogram.PNG" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/174805_parallelogram.PNG" style="font-size: 13.3333px;" /></P><P></P><P>Thank &amp; Regards</P><P>Shekar</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:57:54 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390973#M422901 shekhar_analyti 2017-08-28T02:57:54Z Re: How to create parallelogram shaped text object ? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390974#M422902 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Simple answer -- you can't, text boxes an only be rectangles. However, you could create a background text object with a parallelogram image and a foreground text object (with a transparent background) for the text. This text box should be sized to be included in the size of the background box.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:39:08 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390974#M422902 jonathandienst 2017-08-28T05:39:08Z Re: How to create parallelogram shaped text object ? https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390975#M422903 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You might need multiple text boxes to get that. Mainly playing with corner settings (in advanced styling mode , doc settings) you could get that.</P><P><IMG alt="Capture.PNG" class="jive-image image-1" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/174796_Capture.PNG" style="height: auto;" /></P><P>Overlapping the text boxes you could get something like:</P><P><IMG alt="Capture3.PNG" class="jive-image image-2" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/174815_Capture3.PNG" style="height: auto;" /></P><P>Then using the background color/transparency hide the unnecessary portions like:</P><P><IMG alt="Capture3.PNG" class="jive-image image-3" src="https://community.qlik.com/legacyfs/online/174816_Capture3.PNG" style="height: auto;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 06:13:12 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/How-to-create-parallelogram-shaped-text-object/m-p/1390975#M422903 tresB 2017-08-28T06:13:12Z