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From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: path to calligraphy penstroke
Summary: yep
Message-ID: <1717@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 3 Jun 90 19:40:32 GMT
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Organization: National Cancer Institute, Frederick
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In article <1896@majestix.ida.liu.se> andwi@majestix.ida.liu.se
(Andreas Wickberg) writes:
>
>Whould this do the job?
>
>%!  penstroke routine
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Yes, that works!  On NeWS it shows a NO followed by a delta in simple outline,
but when sent to my Apple LaserWriter it shows the NO-Delta as a path drawn by
a pen at an angle, and the word TESTING does appear.  Unfortunately it is ugly
since the OUTLINE of the character is being drawn rather than the way one would
with a calligraphy pen.  This is due to the use of the charpath function.
(NeWS 1.1 can't handle charpath so shows nothing.) It looks like a REAL
calligraphy font is in order, or some really sharp programming.  Howcome with
all the power of PostScript and TeX or the older troff that all the nifty fonts
that have been invented haven't become very widely available yet?

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21701-1013
  toms@ncifcrf.gov

(ps: Whould -> Would)