[OS X TeX] Text with shadow

[Alan Munn]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:21 AM, RA Friedrich Vosberg wrote:

> Morning.
>
> How can I make text with shadow?


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.

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.

Alan


% !TEX TS-program = latex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-3d,pst-text}
\usepackage{soul}

\begin{document}

\psshadow[Tshadowangle=75]{\Huge SHADOW TEXT}

\bigskip

\psshadow[Tshadowangle=60]{\Huge\bfseries SHADOW TEXT} % pst-3d

\bigskip

\pscharpath[%
       shadow=true,%
       shadowsize=2pt,%
       shadowangle=-40,%
       shadowcolor=gray,%
       fillstyle=solid,%
       fillcolor=black,%
       linestyle=none,%
       linecolor=black,%
       linewidth=0pt]{\so{SHADOW TEXT}}%

\end{document}

-- 
Alan Munn
amunn at gmx.com




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