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Article #2350Re: How to draw an "outline line"
From: Woodrow Baker
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 1990 06:32
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 1990 06:32
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In article <28029@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, hoberoi@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes: > Hi > is there a way of generating "outline lines" like the outline > fonts ? I could do that by drawing two lines shifted by a "width" but it > seems sotra crude. > Try this: Create your path. Set the linewidth to the total width that your want your 2 lines to occupy Set the color to black, do a gsave, then stroke your path. Then do a grestore, change the color to white, change the linewidth to a smaller value, and then stroke it again. Cheers Woody
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!asuvax!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!chinacat!woody From: woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woodrow Baker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: How to draw an "outline line" Summary: simple way Message-ID: <1318@chinacat.Unicom.COM> Date: 10 Jun 90 06:32:34 GMT References: <28029@eagle.wesleyan.edu> Organization: a guest of Unicom Systems Development, Austin Lines: 17