Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Herbert Voss Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Is this effect possible with postscript Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:42:46 +0200 Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <87ob9run40.fsf@Aspire.decebal.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de RDSofp024dYrBfv9/4xM1gU4Ryd1puFK6KdN29tV/tIyg7 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1511 Am 26.07.2013 04:28, schrieb ashley willis: > > On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > >> 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? > > i am going to say yes, but it would not be easy. this looks like a font > that has been bumped up to 3d with rounded edges and then a lighting > effect applied. i've done some 3d stuff in postscript, even a basic > lighting effect, which can be seen in the below video, but doing to a > font what i describe would be a lot more work still. see http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-light3d/pst-light3d-doc.pdf The PS code is also available. Herbert