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Mike Pelletier

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#28-Aug-15 19:52

Just a little carto technique that might be of interest. Sometimes text over an aerial or shaded relief can be hard to read. One option is to create a layer of text boxes and make them transparent under your text. Lining them up between map and layout is a bit tricky. To make the text boxes have nice rounded corners, use the transform toolbar and do an Inner Buffer with desired distance. On the newly created boxes do a Buffer with the same distance. Reverse selection and delete old boxes. Takes time but at least it can be done.

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Mythman
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#29-Aug-15 03:05

Thanks for the cool technique. I'll be using it regularly.

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