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Creating quotes

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From Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject Creating quotes
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I have been busy with my script to generate quotes. The current
version can be fetched from:
    http://www.decebal.nl/postscript/createQuote.ps

There has still a lot to be done. The most important is that the quote
has to be fetched from a file, but I can not make that work. (See my
other posting.)

Other things that should be done:
- check that the font does not become too big or too little
- selection of font and colours to use
- for every line have the possibility to define the way to display it
  (now the last is right justified and the others centered)
- it is optimised for FaceBook, that should also be parameter driven
- working with font effects
- creating a border
- …

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

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Creating quotes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-02 16:50 +0100
  Re: Creating quotes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-03 00:58 +0100
    Re: Creating quotes Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2012-12-03 02:55 +0100

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