RE: Image file as Text Fill

Hello All
If I remember correctly from my PhotoShop 7 Days you could create different parts of your project in seperate layers and make them visible or invisible using the eye tool for the layer. Does anybody know of a way using this tool, or any other that you can think of to fill in text using an image file. For example instead of text with normal black fill colour the text would be filled in with my image file which is maybe lying at the back or something.
Any help, greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks
JayBee

Make a type layer in Ps as you like. Copy/paste/drag in your image and place as you like, making sure the image layer is above the type layer. You can temporarily reduce the opacity of the image layer for reference. Then with the image layer selected go to layer... create clipping mask (ctrl g).
J

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Hello,
Since this issue is mainly related to iTextSharp which belongs to third-party, I would recommend you consider posting this issue on its support website to get help.
Maybe the following forum will help.
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                    app.activeDocument.pages.item(myPage.name).place(myImages);
                    alert("Done!");
function myMacOSFileFilter(myFolder){
    var myFilteredFiles = myFolder.getFiles(myFileFilter);
    return myFilteredFiles;
function myFileFilter(myFile){
    var myFileType = myFile.type;
    switch (myFileType){
        case "JPEG":
        case "EPSF":
        case "PICT":
        case "TIFF":
        case "8BPS":
        case "GIFf":
        case "PDF ":
            return true;
            break;
        default:
        for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter<myExtensions.length; myCounter++){
            var myExtension = myExtensions[myCounter];
            if(myFile.name.indexOf(myExtension)>-1){
                return true;
                break;
    return false;
//To find cited pages
function citePage(myInst){
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat="(?<=Figure \\d\\.)\\d";
    var myFind=app.findGrep(false);
    myPage = myFind[myInst].characters.item(0).parentTextFrames[0].parent;
    return myPage.name;
Thanks Regards
Thiyagu

The shadow effect has to have something to be applied on, but by default text frames borders and fills are invisible.
If you set the border of your frame to a color & thickness, you'll see it gets a shadow of its own, independent of the text. (Try it with dotted and dashed lines!)
Additionally, if you set the fill of your text frame to a solid color, you'll see the single solid shadow you were expecting.

Where are image files stored for tiled backgrounds in the templates?

I am working with a template, but wanted to change the image that is set to tile in the background of one of the text boxes. I wanted to use another image that is set to tile in a different box, but I cannot locate this image. When changing the image on the Image Fill, after I click Choose, I need to point to an image file - anyone know where these images that are in the templates are stored?

The files are located in the theme package that's located in the iWeb application: iWeb/Contents/Resources/Themes folder. From there you find the theme, open the package and drill down till you find the image files. You will have to use Quickview to locate the one you want.
What theme are you using?
OT

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