<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:21 AM, RA Friedrich Vosberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Morning.<br><br>How can I make text with shadow?<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>If you want to emulate MSWord's shadow text, I don't know of a way to do this. The following solutions require pstricks, so must use latex - dvips - ps2pdf route.<div><br></div><div>I've used the soul package to letter space the text, which makes the shadows look better. The last example is probably closest to Word's; the first examples literally cause the letters to cast a shadow of a specified angle, which isn't actually what the Word shadow does.</div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><br><div><div><br></div><div><div>% !TEX TS-program = latex</div><div><br></div><div>\documentclass{article}</div><div>\usepackage{pstricks}</div><div>\usepackage{pst-3d,pst-text}</div><div>\usepackage{soul}</div><div><br></div><div>\begin{document}</div><div><br></div><div>\psshadow[Tshadowangle=75]{\Huge SHADOW TEXT}</div><div><br></div><div>\bigskip</div><div><br></div><div>\psshadow[Tshadowangle=60]{\Huge\bfseries SHADOW TEXT} % pst-3d</div><div><br></div><div>\bigskip</div><div><br></div><div>\pscharpath[%</div><div> shadow=true,%</div><div> shadowsize=2pt,%</div><div> shadowangle=-40,%</div><div> shadowcolor=gray,%</div><div> fillstyle=solid,%</div><div> fillcolor=black,%</div><div> linestyle=none,%</div><div> linecolor=black,%</div><div> linewidth=0pt]{\so{SHADOW TEXT}}% </div><div> </div><div>\end{document}</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- </div><div>Alan Munn</div><div><a href="mailto:amunn@gmx.com">amunn@gmx.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>