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From: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: PostScript banner program wanted
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Date: 4 Apr 89 14:45:36 GMT
References: <177@indri.primate.wisc.edu>
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Reply-To: merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge)
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In-reply-to: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)

In article <177@indri.primate.wisc.edu>, bin@primate (Brain in Neutral) writes:
| I am looking for a program similar to /usr/games/banner, except
| that I'd like it to generate PostScript for printing "real" characters
| rather than large characters faked by printing many small characters.
| Anybody have such a thing?  C preferred for Unix, but variants welcome
| too, of course.

Well, you could steal the big text generator example out of the blue
book... and it's *all* in Postscript.  Here's how I generate my name
over 4 pages:

%!
/inch {72 mul} def
/leftmargin .5 inch def
/bottommargin .25 inch def
/pagewidth 7.5 inch def
/pageheight 10 inch def
/printposter.dict 10 dict def
/printposter {
	printposter.dict begin
	/rows exch def
	/columns exch def
	/bigpicproc exch def

	newpath
		leftmargin bottommargin moveto
		0 pageheight rlineto
		pagewidth 0 rlineto
		0 pageheight neg rlineto
		closepath
	clip

	leftmargin bottommargin translate

	0 1 rows 1 sub
	{
		/rowcount exch def
		0 1 columns 1 sub
		{
			/colcount exch def
			gsave
				pagewidth colcount mul neg
				pageheight rowcount mul neg
				translate

				bigpicproc
				copypage erasepage
			grestore
		} for
	} for
	end % printposter.dict
} def

{
	/Times-Roman findfont 10 inch scalefont setfont
	0.2 inch setlinewidth
	newpath
		1 inch 1 inch moveto
		(Randal) false charpath
	stroke
} 4 1 printposter
======================================== snip snip

Just replace "Randal" with your text (unless you want to say "Randal" :-),
and possibly change the "4 1" to something that has enough pages to hold
your text (that's pages-wide, pages-high, in case you can't decipher the
code).

Works for me.
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