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The vector drop shadow offers affine transform effects and will scale in accordance with the zoom of an on screen view. The bit map shadow provides better softening characteristics and is drawn much faster. The other, a vector shadow, is accessed from the Shadow Palette found on the Tools main menu. The one controlled here can be thought of as a bit map drop shadow. There are actually two types of drop shadows available for use with text.
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The offset and blur values are defined in Points, rather than drawing units. The position of the shadow is defined relative to the characters by the Angle control and Offset numeric value The shadow may be "softened&auot by applying a blur with the numeric inputs provided. The color of the shadow is chosen with the color well. Click the check box to apply a shadow to the inspecting text. The Shadow parameters provide the ability to apply a drop shadow to text. The color of the strike is defined using the color well to the right of the menu. The underline popup menu provides several options for striking out text. The color of the underlining is defined using the color well to the right of the menu. The underline popup menu provides several options for underlining text. The Stroke numeric entry determine the weight of the outline for Outline and Stroke styled text, larger numbers (4-5) indicating a heavier weight. The right color well controls the stroke or outline color of the text. The left color well determines the fill color (or simply the color) of the text. The popup menu is used to choose the stylize format for the text. With these parameters it is possible to Stylize the text change the color or use an outline or stroke and fill appearance. Normal text is shown as black - filled - paths. The top group of parameters is used to stylize text. If a text graphic is simply selected but not in the editing mode, the inspecting details and changes will apply to all the text of the text graphic. The details shown will apply to a selected range of editing text. Most of these parameters are available on the Text Menu or the System Font Palette. This tab view is used to apply special styling effects to text.