Thread: White Shadow
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So, in case somebody is interested in a wrap up, the best solution for me was (here is the case of black text with white shadow):
– creating one text box with the black text
– duplicate it, change the font color to white in the duplicate
– make 20 copies of the duplicate (10 may be enough for you, I use 20)
– superpose everything while making sure the original text box stays in front
– group all and add a white shadow using the shadow inspector.
– Still in the shadow inspector, set the shadow offset to 1pt horizontally (better aligned like this, don't know why) and 0pt vertically
– click on the "shadow immediately beneath this object" button in the shadow inspector
– play with the "shadow fuzziness" slider to get the effect you want (for me, it is around 20-30% fuzziness)

Drawbacks:
– quite a lot of work for one text field.
– no batch text editing for a group of text boxes.
– no possibility to use the group of text object as a line label: when the line moves the group won't follow, so you'll need to move it manually.


If anybody has some suggestions for the drawbacks, I'd be glad to hear about it...

Last edited by Kaz219; 2009-12-14 at 02:49 AM..