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Have you ever wanted to explore the flexibility of Adobe Illustrator's type capabilities? Have you wanted to make the type in your designs and Web pages more effective and stunning? How about crumbling your type like a cookie? Or roughen its edges? Well, now you can. Illustrator Type Magic is a unique collection of the hottest type effects in use today. Using step-by-step instructions and full-color examples, you'll discover how to create stunning type treatments in just minutes. Illustrator Type Magic is filled with dazzling effects, such as distorting, knockouts, masks, shadows, gradients, and many more, that you can create on your own! The companion CD-ROM is located with a collection of freeware and shareware fonts, stock images from D'Pix and Photo24, demos of Illustrator and other Adobe products, and the finished type effects in Illustrator files.