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Re: Wrap text WITHIN a graphic: How?

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From: Greg Feldman-Hill
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:27
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Rick_McCormack@mindlink.bc.ca (Rick McCormack) writes:
: PAgeMaker 3 can wrap text within a boundary box.
: 
: Create the box, just as normal (RTM) at the location where the text will be
: placed.
: Fold the box over. (oh, sure!) To do this: grab the upper left corner of the
: bounding box, and drag it across the right hand edge of the bounding box,
: placing it about one-half-inch below the existing upper right corner. Repeat
: with the lower left corner, placing it about one-half-inch ABOVE the existing
: lower right corner. Pull the original lower right corner fully over to the
: left; do the same with the original upper right corner. (Note that is the
: original--as drawn-- right corners, which, by the time you do this are now
: the lower and upper left corners.)
: 
: You can now shape the bounding box, and any text you type in it will conform
: to the shape you create.
: 
: This procedure is outlined somewhere in the book USING PAGEMAKER: MACINTOSH
: VERSION, 2nd Edition. Published by Que, ISBN 0-88022-607-2, 1990. Oh,
: yeah--here it is, page 234.
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Far out!  I have the manuals, but not the QUE book.  I'll have to find
a copy of this and take a look.  Thanks Rick (and everyone) for the
help!

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