Drop Shadow in Text Field

[Richmond]

On 07/26/2012 01:57 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> You can put an opaque field of thesame size behind the transparent field and assign the same graphical effect to it. That way, you have one field that shows dropshadow behind the text and another field with a dropshadow following the outline.

Fudge.

Why does it seem that an awful lot of our time seems to consist of 
finding "work arounds"?

And, does "work arounds" really mean circumventing the limitations of . 
. . . ?

Somewhere (in Edinburgh, possibly) somebody ought to be keeping a tally 
of the work arounds,
so that those work arounds are NOT necessary in the next recension of LC.

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> On 26 jul 2012, at 05:09, Randy Hengst wrote:
>
>> Thanks Scott,
>>
>> That's kind of what I thought… but, was hoping for a way to assign to the text and the outline of the field.
>>
>> be well,
>> randy
>>
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