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From: jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: signatures in PostScript
Keywords: PostScript  signatures   bitmaps   cleverness
Message-ID: <6844@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 11 Feb 91 10:19:47 GMT
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prs@tcsc3b2.tcsc.com (Paul Stath) writes:

>I think what you are looking for has been done by Don Lancaster.  Don
>is a PostScript _GOD_, and has written things that IMHO are some of the BEST
>examples of PostScript ever generated.  I don't have his address since he
>stopped his "Ask the Guru" column in "Computer Shopper", but somebody
>on the net should be able to help. (Any takers??, Please post as I want
>to know also. E-Mail address would be GREAT.)  One of the articles dealt
>specificly with putting a PostScript signature in a document.
>Claimed all that was needed was a piece of graph paper, a safety pin,
>and patience.


Yes indeed.  Don Lancaster's address and phone are:

Synergetics
Box 809 
Thatcher, AZ 85552
(602) 428 4073

The book that explains manual signature digitization is in the "Ask the Guru"
Selected Rreprints book that he publishes-on-demand.  This book contains
most of his Postscript/laserwriter tricks including the signature 
one.  He's now broken this line into two books names appropriately 
enough, "Ask the Guru", volumes I and II.

Don is now writing for "Midnight Engineering", "The Journal of Personal
Product Development".  He now calls his column "The Blatant Opportunist".
This is a very nifty little magazine that has filled the gap left by
"Micro Cornucopia" and "C Users' Journal" since it went Hollywood.  I
think enough of the magazine that I write a monthly column for it too :-)

I now have a genuine DQ, having just recently entered the wonderful world
of PostScript via the purchase of a TI MicroLaser (Nifty machine.)  
What is "encapsulated PostScript?"  My ancient Red and Blue books don't
mention it and neither does the TI manual.  Email prefered.

john

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