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Baseline Shift to 1 pt in the Character panel in order to move the type away
from the underlying road or river path. In this map of Madison, Alabama,
Gordon encountered paths with sharp turns and tight curves that pinched
letters together or spread them apart with unsightly gaps. He smoothed the
kinks from some paths by clicking to select a path with type, selecting the
Pencil tool, and then dragging it over or near the path.
For paths that couldn't be smoothed solely with the Pencil, Gordon reset the
path's Baseline Shift to 0 and then dragged the path away from the street
path so that its lettering was the same distance away from the street as the
labels with the 1-pt Baseline Shift. Some of the type paths required another
adjustment: Gordon chose Type> Type on a Path> Type on a Path Options,
and in the dialog box changed Align to Path from the default value of
Baseline to Center. Gordon employed these techniques, separately or in
various combinations, as he worked with hundreds of type objects in the
map.
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