RE: FM needs grey text

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Ken Poshedly wrote:
 
> I'm trying to place the word "Draft" in light grey and rotated 45 degrees
> on my
> FrameMaker version 8.0 master pages.
> 
> I tried both using text inside a text box and rotated and also tried
> creating
> rotated text from the graphics toolbox.
> 
> But can't find where to modify "black" to any shade of grey; did find a tip
> to
> set it as yellow for output as grey on black-and-white printers, but we now
> have
> ONLY a color printer.

If you don't already have a suitable gray available in Character Designer, go to View > Color > Definitions and define one. Enter a suitable name, like Gray20. With Model set to CMYK, set Black to 20% (others at 0). Click Add. Now, Gray20 will be available in Character Designer, and you can create a char format that uses it. 

HTH!

Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-903-6372
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