Outlining a font

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5 total messages Started by MartinDPayne Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:04

#215

Author: MartinDPayne
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:04

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I am looking to outline or add shadow to a font so that text will stand out against a full-colour picture background. How can I do this?

Re: Outlining a font

#216

Author: Bob Levine
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:15

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In Pagemaker? You can't.

Piece of cake in InDesign.

Bob

Re: Outlining a font

#217

Author: 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

Re: Outlining a font

#221

Author: John_Davies
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:37

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Create your effect in a drawing app like Illustrator and then place it on the PM page.

Iechyd da! John
16:37 19/02/2009 GMT

Re: Outlining a font

#222

Author: Jay Chevako
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:18

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John_Davies@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Create your effect in a drawing app like Illustrator and then place it on the PM page.
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Hard edge effects only, no soft shadows, this has to go over a photo.
Jay

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