Graphic text and border colour

[Richmond Mathewson]

Here's a "baby way" to get a graphic object with
a coloured text and a different coloured
'border' (note the single quotes):

1. Make a new Graphic Object.

2. Set its border width to 0 (yes, really),

3. Crack open my plug-in:

  http://mathewson.110mb.com/FILEZ/XPROPS.rev.zip

 and set up a Label Text, set the showName to true

or, do it with code.

4. Select a colour for the label text.

5. Open up the Graphic Effects palette within
    the Properties Palette for your graphic object:

   Check "Outer Glow"

  Select the colour you want for your 'border'

  Massage the settings to get a border effect.

 [I went for Opacity: 255, Spread: 119, Size: 5]

Not rocket science but a lot quicker and easier than
the extremely clever stuff with STROKE>