Chris, The shortcut key you are missing is control-F6 Move focus to floating window. This can also be used for the Help window.
This is set in systempreferences keyboards keyboard shortcuts keyboard and text input. Best wishes, Jonathan On Apr 23, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: > Not sure you need a special font for this. Shadows are just another standard > font effect like bold or underline. For example, in text edit you can type > some text and then do a select all. Then choose Format->Font->Show Font from > the menu or just hit command-T. The tricky bit is that the font box doesn't > always appear wide enough to house all the options and so it hides the lesser > used ones. To fix this find the Zoom control in the window chrome and action > that to make the Fonts window bigger. Then you'll discover text shadow is a > checkbox right after the document color button and a 'dimmed image'. > > There are more controls after that. First will be three more dimmed images > followed by a 'shadow angle circular slider' which sets which direction the > shadow is to be cast. 50% is where the shadow is south of the text, 0% is > north of the text, 25% is east of the text and 75% is west. You can pick > anything inbetween so to have the shadow to the southeast you would want > about 37%. After that control is the same information in degrees. Its a > little odd because you can still arrow to adjust the value but it will only > read off the % as you adjust and you'll have to VO left and right to have it > read the degrees again. Same kind of thing but 180 degrees is west and 360 or > 0 degrees is east. Anyway, once your shadow is on and you've picked the angle > you can VO right to set the opacity, blur and offset sliders. This is where > I'm not clear what the normal values are since I've now played with > everything. I suspect the initial opacity is 33%, blur is 0% and offset is > about 15% (mine says 14.3%). > > One other annoying thing is that the font menu is one of those 'not really a > window' windows so if you command tilde away to go back to the document you > can't command tilde back to the font window. You either have to do VO-F2 > twice to pick it again from the window chooser or command-T twice, once to > hide it and once to open and move focus to it. The second solution though > faster to type will not put focus back where you left it since the window was > closed and re-opened. > > Hope this helps. > > CB > > On 4/23/13 11:42 AM, Red.Falcon wrote: >> OK I'm not familiar with font names and do not know if this is available and >> I'll try my best to describe it! >> The font I wish to find when looked at visually looks like the letters stand >> out from the page so the letters have a shadow but have no clue what name >> that font will have if it even exist's! >> Any help welcome! >> Colin >> > > -- > ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
