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Re: Is this effect possible with postscript

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Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:

> I like the effect of the red font on page 7 of:
>     https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/9/93/LCA2012.pdf
>
> Can this be done with postscript?

Not easily, I don't think. The saturation gradient is fairly easy, where
it's pinker at the top and redder at the bottom, and the outlining is
fairly easy too. The fuzzy edge of the drop shadows is probably harder,
though, I don't immediately see how I'd do blurring. And, the white
lines where the "light catches" aren't easy: given a font that permits
such analysis, I can imagine an algorithm that breaks the letter
outlines into many straight lines and processes those for angle, etc. to
add the white reflections (I do this kind of thing when I want to, say,
nestle letters perfectly right up against each other), but that takes a
fair few lines of non-trivial thought and coding to achieve.

Mark

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Is this effect possible with postscript Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-25 09:15 +0200
  Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2013-07-25 09:13 +0100
    Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2013-07-25 09:18 +0100
  Re: Is this effect possible with postscript ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2013-07-25 09:49 +0100
    Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-25 12:14 +0200
      Re: Is this effect possible with postscript ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2013-07-25 12:27 +0100
  Re: Is this effect possible with postscript ashley willis <"s/^.*/valid/&&print' address'"@hostscript.org> - 2013-07-26 02:28 +0000
    Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss@alumni.tu-berlin.de> - 2013-07-26 19:42 +0200
      Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-28 16:32 +0200
    Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2013-07-28 16:30 +0200
    Re: Is this effect possible with postscript luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-07-31 01:40 -0700

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