I'd like to create an invoice in Docs. My information should be on the upper right corner – on every page. The element used for this shouldn't have 'a flow', so that it doesn't influence the header's fixed height.
Trying to use a drawing with a text-box inside it, like suggested in the product-forum, doesn't seem to work too well: the text, even though it's the same font and size, looks different than the text inside the real document. It is being rendered as pixel-data which seems to make it blurry or not as sharp as the real text. I didn't resize/scale the drawing itself.
Is there any workaround for this blurry text?
Or is there a possibility to use any other element (which can hold text) with "absolute positioning"?
Best Answer
So far there is no way to work around the blurry text beside just using the regular text on the document. I know what you mean by blurry text because I just tried using in a document (for answering this question). Some suggestions are:
Try copying the image of the drawing with text and paste it into a new Google Document. This was suggested on a Google Product forum. When I tried it I did not see a real huge difference to be honest but it's worth a try.
Have you tried writing your whole document in the drawing tab? You may not notice the blurriness because it is all the same. I have tried this and it looks pretty good but I can not speak for you. Try that and see what you think!
Consider using another document creator program like: Buzzword, ZOHO, Etherpad, Hackpad (despite the name it's useful). Please know that ZOHO and HackPad are online like Google Docs. I strongly recommend checking these out as some of these programs actually seem pretty useful and you may find that they will be good for your scenario.
Sorry I could not have been more helpful. I know this probably was not the greatest news but Google has a lot of tweaks to continue making to Google docs before it can compare to other document creators out there.