Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder.xennanews.com!nf40.xennanews.com!not-for-mail From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Creating quotes Organization: Decebal Computing X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:50:11 +0100 Message-ID: <87obicpi6k.fsf@Compaq.site.inet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T/3/cG5lXvXNGFkg+80XiBrV7b4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@xennanews.com Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.53.123.169 (84.53.123.169) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:59:30 +0100 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1124 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