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From: larry@csccat.cs.com (Larry Spence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: characters in perspective
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Date: 5 Oct 90 23:34:52 GMT
References: <1990Oct5.155219.442@morrow.stanford.edu>
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In article <1990Oct5.155219.442@morrow.stanford.edu> craig@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Craig Jarchow) writes:
>A rotated, 3-dimensional plot shown in perspective requires characters with
>bounding boxes that are trapezoids. Anybody have a PostScript routine that
>will map a character into a trapezoidal bounding box?

Note that mapping a character from a rectangular to a trapezoidal bounding
box will not necessarily give you true perspective, although you may be able
to approximate it.

-- 
Larry Spence
larry@csccat.cs.com
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