Shadows on text (not the enclosing box)

[ucfgoofy at excite.com]

As I have just recently joined this list, please forgive me if this question has already been asked.  I searched the archives and found nothing along these lines.

I'm one of those people who absolutely loves the soft drop shadows that graphical items in OmniGraffle get, and I was thrilled when support of those shadows was added to PDF exports.  One thing that has been a constant frustration for me is adding a similar drop shadow to text.  The "PDF Compositor" app that came with OS X Public Beta let me type any text in any font, click a single button, and every letter of what I typed had its own soft (i.e. without crisp edges) shadow.  I've never seen that in an OS X app since.

Can anyone suggest anything that would let me -- preferably just by finding a magic check box somewhere -- add these drop shadows to text?  The only "shadow" option I've found in OmniGraffle adds the shadow to the text box only when the box uses a color fill.

Thanks, in advance, for your help!

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