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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: Text inside borders graphic?
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 21:21:07 GMT
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- William F. Maddock (wmaddock@icon-stl.net) wrote:
- : On 17-Mar-96 07:07:57 dmeyer@tiac.net David Meyer wrote:
- :
- : >Some images pose problems, though. "Indian Chief" is one such. It
- : >consists of one image at the upper right and another at the lower left.
- : >Looks great. But how do I get the text to align with both edges?
- :
- : Final Writer has drawing tools which will be of help.
- :
- : Import Indian chief and send it to the back. Just to the left of the
- : image in the upper right, you want to draw a verticle line. In its
- : preferences set the text flow options to left vertical. You can play
- : with the distance setting. Set its color to white.
- :
- : With the image in the lower left, you would draw the line just to the
- : right of the image and set its text flow options to right vertical.
- : Everything else should be the same as the other line.
- :
- Not exactly what I wanted, but a little experimentation yielded a
- reasonable approximation. Your guidance was key in this and I thank you.
- I chose to use diagonals, rather than verticals, and discovered that
- sending them to the back may not be needed. I did see that importing the
- picture with Text Flow=None was important. Great! Again, my thanks.
-