Click Stroke style under the Fill and Stroke Toolbar.Choose the outline color that you want, set the desired Opacity.Select Flat Color to add a stroke to the text.Click 'Stroke paint' under the Fill and Stroke toolbar.Open the Fill and Stroke toolbox by selecting the text object and then clicking Object > Fill and Stroke.This makes the text readable but doesn't cause it to obscure so much of the background, especially useful if the text is multiple lines. Normally I like to add a white background around black text. The easy way to add this to all text of interest is to click on all the text boxes that you want to add the background to and then just turn on the 'Fill Background' filter under the Filter Editor toolbar.Īnother option is adding an outline color around the text to increase readability. Select Filter General Settings - change the Coordinates & Dimensions to determine the size of the box that I want around the text.Change the Effect Parameters - Pick a Flood Color that I want for the background and change the desired Opacity level.Click on the 'Fill Background' filter in the Filter Editor.Open the Filter Editor using Filters>Filter Editor.Select Filters>Fill and Transparency>Fill Background.I found that using the Fill Background filter worked much better to add an opaque box behind text. I had the same issue that Tom brought up in the comments under Billy Kerr's answer, which led me to find a different solution.

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