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From: jj1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: signatures in PostScript
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Date: 2 Feb 91 03:29:17 GMT
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 31-Jan-91 Re: signatures in
PostScript Glenn Reid@heaven.woodsi (865)

> That works well.  Another thing that I have done is to scan in the
> signature and then curve-fit it with a stroked line, which ends up
> being a bit smoother than the pixel signature, more believable, and
> requires very little data as compared to the bitmap.

> I read mine into Adobe Illustrator on the Mac and auto-traced it,
> then cleaned it up so that it "looked like" my signature.  It looks
> remarkably good, and you have to look very closely to notice that it
> was not signed by hand.

Glenn,

Could you send the resulting PostScript to this bboard?  I'd really like
to have a signed copy of your various PostScript books, but since we've
never met before...  Hmm, is there a way to manually feed an entire book
through a LaserWriter?  ;-)


Joe Jackson
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