Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:35:18 -0600 From: John Deubert Organization: Acumen Training Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:35:18 -0800 Message-ID: <2012112006351877278-john@acumentrainingcom> References: <87ehjse4s8.fsf@Compaq.site.inet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Text effects User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-EDqPdkRYu+MMzAd4HL0ip5OKxWtmkdxSpwLQD3o235Wp6tFo0gdi+IipkebScjFx4wOItJ8JF53pbwx!8zlAL5pA+rdOlHU2T+6XJ/7PjbX1FnBBvfm6blw+baOTtCynV0tboLIZoU5nUE0CTfoCRVCO X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1932 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1067 On 2012-11-17 13:29:43 +0000, Cecil Westerhof said: > I am a newbie concerning postscript. I like to experiment with text > effect. Put if I search in Google (with postscript or ps), I get > mostly photoshop results. What are good resources to learn about text > (or graphical) effects? You might find various issues of the Acumen Journal helpful. Over the years it's accumulated articles on a lot of text-related topics, such as creating outline fonts, adding characters to a font, vertically centering text, etc. There more than sixty of these, free for the downloading, at www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html - John -- ======== John Deubert Acumen Training PostScript & PDF Engineering Classes & Consulting www.acumentraining.com Learn PostScript programming techniques Read the free Acumen Journal acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html