Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!pyramid!infmx!cortesi From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: repost of EPS Recycle Logos -- actual ps Summary: thanks but... Keywords: encapsulated postscript code Message-ID: <1991Apr29.193738.25248@informix.com> Date: 29 Apr 91 19:37:38 GMT References: <14482@adobe.UUCP> <1991Apr27.134134.1983@newsserver.sfu.ca> Sender: cortesi@informix.com Organization: Informix Software, Inc. Lines: 31 In article rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes: > >Here's a shar file of the postscript that I extracted from the uuencoded >files... Thanks for your efforts! >...The files claim to be eps conforming... They are accepted by the extremely picky Preview application under NextStep 2.0. However there are two flaws in the figures as figures. First, when you scale them up to fill a page, it is quite evident that the curves are not rendered with curve operators, but rather are constructed from 5 or 6 straight line segments. They look pretty clunky at the size you would want for a sign to put on a recycle bin, for example. More important, the recycle logo is not correct. All three arrows start from the back and come to the front, and are essentially interchangable. That is not right. In the real recycle logo, one arrow (usually the top one?) starts in the front and goes to the back; no rotation or reflection of that arrow will yield one of the other arrows (except, of course, a rotation in depth :-) . This is not a new topic; back in July 90 there was a flurry of recycle logos posted here. One by jiang@hbar.rice.edu (Jun Jiang) was quite nice at large magnifications, but it also had the logical flaw of three interchangable arrows. Maybe somebody could get it right yet?