I would like to reserve this little frozen hamlet on Seal Island if Quenten is Ok with that.

Is there any background information on Seal island? I could not find any.

What I have found in the past is that how the curve/line is drawn affects this. Ie right to left / left to right / top to bottom or bottom to top. It seems that the programs takes that information and then the click point of where you selected the curve/line along with the option you selected in the dialog to determine how to draw the text. I did sample tests and then made sure I also drew the line/curve using the correct starting point I needed to get the text ithe way I wanted it displayed

Your both welcome

Sue,

The edge effect works fine if you change the setting to use map units instead of Percent of View width and move it below the glow effect. suspect the effect is grabbing the purple glow. As during some playing around I had the entire CC3+ display window purple with the effect on.

PNW,

You should be using the map units option for your effects it will give you less problems than Percent of view width.

If you post the .fcw we can look at it and see if we can find the issue for you.