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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Pagestream
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.042049.5580@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 08:20:48 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.234520.27520@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <1991Apr6.234520.27520@milton.u.washington.edu>, alexd@milton.u.washington.edu (Alex Danilchik) writes:
>Sorry, i should have included this question in my first posting.
>
>Question:  will Pagestream allow me to place text on a .IMG
>raster without obscurring elements of the raster definded by
>the "box" that it creates to house the text?  In other words,
>can one place individual characters of text on top of a .IMG
>file without the "text in-a-box" approach?
>

If you place text on an image, the only thing obscured is that which the  
characters cover.  No box-like hole is created.  You can define this precisely,
using other backgrounds as well.   
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