Scott White wrote:
Folks
I have a client who when she creates a ps file from Frmae 7.2 and
distills her background boxes look skewed, ie the box narrows in some
places and looks normal in others. From what I gathered from her is she
creates a box, fills it with a solid color, lays a text box inside and
types what ever words she wants or just types a text line inside the
filled box. Either way the outside, or simulated shadow box, narrows in
some places instead maintaining a constant size.
I tried following her steps and I couldn't get the same results.
She is using ariel font, frame 7.2, distiller 7.0. I was using distiller
6.0.
Any thoughts???
Is the customer creating the shadow box with the text tool (a
text frame), the graphic frame tool (a graphics frame), the
polygon tool (a closed shape that can be drawn rectangular or
free-form), or the polyline tool (an open shape)?
Is the box skewed before the text object (line or frame) is
placed on top of it?
You can't place an object inside a rectangle, or a polygon;
only on them. You can group a rectangle or polygon, and a text
frame or text line.
You can drag an object inside a graphic frame.
My best guess is that the box is not drawn with the rectangle
tool, but with the polygon tool, and it's not perfectly
rectangular to begin with. You use the polygon tool by
clicking it to make corners, and double clicking to stop
making corners; then you deselect. If you hold Shift while
clicking to make the corners, the lines and corners will be at
45- or 90-degrees.
To resize polygons, you drag a corner. You can also reshape it
- drag the corners - by choosing Graphics > Reshape, then drag
a corner. Reshaping by dragging without holding Shift, can
break the rectangularity.
Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
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