Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!bbn.com!malis From: malis@bbn.com (Andy Malis) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: character outlines Message-ID: <38391@bbn.COM> Date: 7 Apr 89 12:16:41 GMT Sender: news@bbn.COM Lines: 34 I use the following postscript program from the net to write "DRAFT" on the middle of a page in big grey letters. It works great with Microsoft Word on the Macintosh. ------- %! Procedure to print a light-gray DRAFT on pages gsave initmatrix 72 dup scale /Helvetica-Bold findfont 1 scalefont setfont (DRAFT) dup stringwidth pop 4.5 5.5 translate 45 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto .95 setgray show grestore %% This overlay produces a 1 inch %% tall DRAFT at a 45 degree angle in the center of the page. %% The routine is self-adjusting so any string can be placed in instead %% of DRAFT in the above routine and used. ------- Can a postscript guru provide a modification to produce the "DRAFT" in outline letters, rather than solid gray? I don't read the newsgroup, so please mail replies to malis@bbn.com or ...!bbn!malis. I promise to post a working reply. Thanks, as they say, in advance. Andy Malis UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,uunet}!bbn!malis