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From: tts@ttank.ttank.com (Karl Bunch)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: 3D Block Characters..
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.185336.14948@ttank.ttank.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 18:53:36 GMT
Reply-To: karl@ttank.com
Organization: Think Tank Software, Norwalk, CA
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Anybody have good ideas on how one could print characters with
a "3D block" type effect.  I have tried:

/Str (THIS IS A TEST) def
Str gsave show grestore
-2 -2 rmoveto
.5 setlinewidth
Str gsave 1.0 setgray show grestore
Str true charpath stroke

But of course this does not "Connect" the images so it looks more like a
shadow than 3D block.

I know I could use a for look with a small increment!  But It seems to 
waste intense amounts of printer CPU time.

Thanks in advance,
Karl
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