annoying little plus sign on shapes

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annoying little plus sign on shapes

I am putting several shapes together in Pages for use in another program. I do a command-shift-4 screen shot, open the little PNG in Preview, save it as a jpeg, and load it into the other program.

I discovered I could make a shape editable so I could create new shapes. Cool. But then they get this doofy little plus sign on them. I do not want it in the jpeg. How do I get rid of it?

800 MHz G4 iMac 17 FP & 2 GHz MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.7), Also have G3 iMac, Performa, LC, and some Apple //s.

Posted on Dec 19, 2006 9:06 PM

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Answer 1

IanB

Level 4

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Dec 20, 2006 1:18 AM in response to Bud Lengtat

Hello Bud

I'm not sure I completely understand what your issue is.

Do you have text inside these shapes? If so, is there enough space for all your text? When your text doesn't fit inside a shape, Pages puts a plus sign on the base of the shape to warn you that it is not displaying everything. You either have to delete some text or expand the shape to get rid of it.

If that is not your issue, maybe you could describe what you do to get the plus sign in a little more detail.

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Answer 2

Bud Lengtat Author

Level 1

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Dec 20, 2006 5:24 AM in response to IanB

No text is in the shape. Say I want a quadrilateral, a non-rectangular, non-regular quadrilateral. I start with a Pages square. Then. Whoa! That's it. Even though I am not doing a text thing, Pages thinks I want to so it is warning me that my shape is too small. Let's fool Pages into being more cooperative...

I went into the shape and made some text and selected it and set the font size to 4. Then I deleted the text, since I didn't want it in the first place. Now the plus sign is gone and it looks like I want it to.

Thanks for the question that turned out to lead me to the fix.

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