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anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber) writes:
: Here's a Saint Valentine's Day card written in PostScript.



Try the following heart, rather than a font one:

%!
-130 100 translate
 1 .8 scale

0 1 40 {
40.0 div dup 2 sub mul neg setgray
newpath
300 120 moveto
400 300  0 740  400 660 curveto
800 900  600 250  300 120 curveto
fill
[.9 .03 -.02 .95 50 13] concat
} for

showpage

Easily adapted to fit your front page.

A nice personalising trick is first to fill the background
with black, then gray it with the recipient's name,
as in

1 setgray
20 0 translate
/Times-Italic findfont 20 scalefont setfont
-120 15 920 {           % for
dup -6 div exch moveto
0 1 12 {pop (Rebecca) show} for
} for

and _then_ draw the heart;
fewer iterations in the for loops with a bigger typeface,
longer name, or smaller space,
more for smaller/shorter/larger respectively.

With a colour printer,
try replacing the
  40.0 div dup 2 sub mul neg setgray
in the heart by (for instance)
  40.0 div dup 2 sub mul neg 0 0 setrgbcolor
or to your taste;
the possibilities alone are endless.

Tim