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In article <BxxIt6.3KI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Ed Japel) writes:
>Hi!  I have been trying to write a postscript program to print
>a persons name on one long edge of a paper, and again along
>the opposite edge, rotated so that when the paper is folded in the middle (lengthwise, the name will be readable from either side.  This should
>not be as difficult as I am trying to make it, I have a bad case
>of brain-block.   Thanks for any help!
> 
>Michael Moe
>mkiteam@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
>

%!
/SectorTitle {          % string x y r > -
        gsave                           % save graphics state
                /R exch def             % Pull info off stack.
                /Y exch def             %   remember first in and
                /X exch def             %   last out queue.
                0 setgray               % color to black
                /Times-Roman findfont   % select font
                32 scalefont            % set pointsize
                setfont                 % use this as the default font
               /X /Y moveto            % select x and y
                /R rotate               % orient text
                currentpoint translate  % orient new zero location.
                show                    % put the letter on the page
        grestore                        % put graphics state back
} def

(Test Info - 590 36 90) 590 36 90 SectorTitle
(Test Info - 75 600 270) 75 600 270 SectorTitle

showpage

That should do it.

Matt


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