by "George P" <bshof02NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 2, 2008 at 09:04 AM
Is " background mask" a mtext option in LT?
"Paul Martin" <ricketrescue@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:BmjSj.109048$4f4.23281@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> My apologies for quite probably using all the wrong technical terms but
I
> am only an amatuer user of LT2008 and i can't figure out how to achive
> somthing.
>
> I have drawn a rectangle. In that rectangle I have placed some text.
>
> What I want to achieve is a solid fill of the area inside the rectangle
up
> to the edge of the text. What happens at the moment is that it fills to
an
> imaginary rectangle around the text and not up to the text. I also need
to
> be able to add solid fill into the centres of closed letters such B
>
> By way of an example of what i am trying to achieve think of a
nameplate
> in which the letters and border are raised and polishes brass and the
> background is sunken and painted red.
>
> Thanks in anticipation
>
> Paul Martin
