Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Michael Unger Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Rainbow printing Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:06:39 +0200 Organization: not that I'm aware of ... Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <87fvvfde6v.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> Reply-To: 2013Q3.usenet.michaelunger@spamgourmet.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net VOFXWyE8y/i8ogNwFjxrKA7rwQf7SNRW4qAxzYnXaJeN8+oct0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:b1fZhuD0Tts4KA2VH1P68PKwy3E= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 In-Reply-To: <87fvvfde6v.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1448 On 2013-07-15 17:40, "Cecil Westerhof" wrote: > I would like to print things with a rainbow stripe. So the top would > be red, the bottom would be violet and the other colours would be in > between. Is it possible to do this? "smooth shading" with a few sub-sections? "red" to "orange" to "yellow" to "green" and so forth? PostScript operator "shfill" combined with a "shading dictionary"; see the fine PLRM [1], section 8.2, "Operator Details". Michael [1] -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid.