<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 16:57 -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>On 02/28/2018 01:03 PM, David Burleigh wrote:
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On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 12:44 -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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On 02/28/2018 11:43 AM, David Burleigh wrote:
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I'm trying to use the dropshadow feature to put a white blur
behind
black text so as to make it more readable when superimposed on an
image that isn't generally light enough to give sufficent contrast
to
the black text, but also not dark enough to make white text stand
out.
So I set the offset to 0 in both directions and the blur at .2
inches.
The effect is almost what I'm looking for, but white blur is not
white
enough, and I can't find a setting to strengthen it. Is there a
better
way to accomplish this effect?
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If you're using a true white, then it's the background image that's
the
problem.
Greg
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Well, it's the white from the menu in the dropshadow section. Is there
no way to make the white blur effect more dense?
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In your case, you may want to go with the old "shadowed text" feature.
You might at least try it out.
In Text Properties, go to Color and Effects, and after selecting the
text, click the right-most button for Shadowed Text. Click-hold to
change its settings. The color of the shadowed text is the middle
drop-down button for color.
Greg
The other thing to try is reduce the drop shadow blur even further.
Greg
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</a></pre></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks, reducing the dropshadow produced the best effect, short of doing it in Gimp.</div></body></html>