Re: Is this effect possible with postscript

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From	Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject	Re: Is this effect possible with postscript
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Op donderdag 25 jul 2013 10:49 CEST schreef ken@spamcop.net:

> In article <87ob9run40.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl>, Cecil@decebal.nl
> says...
>>
>> 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?
>
> Essentially yes, fairly easily.
>
> The graphic you refer to is actually an image, so the font is a
> picture, not vector data.
>
> The image is combined with a soft mask, which is transparency, and
> therefore not avilable in PostScript, but the mask appears to be
> 100% opaque (thus pointless, other than for slowing down processing
> and using more memory). Removing the SMask shows no visible
> differences.
>
> So yes, you could embed that image in a PostScript program instead,
> and get the same result.

Well, I meant using a font, not using an image. I would like to use my
own words. ;-)

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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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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