Re: Outlining a font

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From: Jay Chevako
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:34

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You can do a cheap shadow by putting a copy of the text in black and 
putting it behind the text an offseting it slightly. This will only get 
you a sharp edge shadow.

The mac version of pagemaker has an outline funtion from the operationg 
system, but it was a worse disaster than faux bold or faux italic

Basically you have to create the text with a soft shadow/outline in 
photoshop over your background and import that.I used to do version 
where I had the live text in pagemaker, but I built the shadow over the 
background in photoshop. It was a lot of work just for a shadow.

Indesign is much easier.
Jay

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