Tutorials on Text Graphics

Hi,
Anyone know of some good tutorials or sources that'll provide information on how to create good text graphics?
I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

No. But needless to say there were some interesting art in there though.
What I meant was how to create nice looking text graphics using Photoshop's Horizontal Type Tool (T).
Thanks anyway!

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Bernd's been across the mountain and seen the bear; so, you can bank on what he posted.
But, just because, I'll second his "no".
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northgrum1 wrote:
Using FM 9.0 p250, I have an anchored frame on a master page which I've made conditional. It's got some text and a graphic in it. When I'm viewing the master page, I can show or hide it just fine. But when I move it over to the "show" side, it shows on my master page, but not on my body page. What am I doing wrong?
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* A "tagged" text frame displays "Flow: A" or some other letter in the tag information area at the left end of the document page's status bar that's at the bottom of the page, when you click a text insertion pointer in it.
* An "untagged" text frame does not display a flow name.
* On a body page, text frames can be placed on the page, or inside other frames. When either kind of text frame is pasted from the clipboard with an insertion point in a text frame, an anchored frame is created, and the pasted frame appears inside the anchored frame. On body pages, both kinds of text frames act as you'd expect - text in them appears in them, is editable, and can be shown/hidden by manipulating conditions.
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- Tagged text frames on master pages are templates for body pages; they do not display their content on body pages; they only create a same-size frame in the same position on the body page. (Try it and repeat this mantra until you get it.)
- Untagged text frames on master pages are not editable on body pages; they are backgrounds that appear on the body pages controlled by the master page. (Try it and repeat until it sinks in.)
Your master page text frame is probably a template (Flow: A) text frame; it appears on the body page with a live typing area, but it does not display its content - text, table, anchored frame, etc. This property makes it easy to store documentation in the master page template text frame so it's always carried with the document; however, it's not helpful to users who don't know how to display master pages. The condition setting show/hide makes no difference in this situation; the conditionalized text in the tagged master page text frame doesn't appear on the body page controlled by the master.
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Read more about master pages, tagged text frames, background text frames, template text frames, headers and footers, flow tags, and autoconnect in Help, and in Google searches that include FrameMaker in the term.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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