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Re: Putting text on the workspace background

#725
From: Kent L Shephard
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:49
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In article <1992Apr15.224120.4258@next.cambridge.ma.us> simsong@next.cambridge.ma.us writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.173900.5059@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu  
>(Fredrik Nyman) writes:
>> Is there an easy way to write text across the workspace background?
>> I'd like to have a cheerful "Don't Panic!" written in 72 point
>> Times-Roman on the grey desktop background.
>
>Try a magic marker.
>
>But seriously, look at Backspace.  What, you don't have Backspace?  I know,  
>it's not on the Servers.  Get it from a friend.
>
>Or, better yet, just open a transparent window, move it to the back of the  
>window list, and draw in it...



Launch draw and crate the graphic there.  Save it as a tiff.  Then use
scene to put it back there.

Scene and draw are two things everyone should have.
>-- 
>
>................................................................simson


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From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard)
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Subject: Re: Putting text on the workspace background
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