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character outlines

#8201
From: Andy Malis
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1989 12:16
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I use the following postscript program from the net to write
"DRAFT" on the middle of a page in big grey letters.  It works
great with Microsoft Word on the Macintosh.

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%! Procedure to print a light-gray DRAFT on pages
gsave
initmatrix 72 dup scale
/Helvetica-Bold findfont 1 scalefont setfont
(DRAFT) dup
stringwidth pop
4.5 5.5 translate
45 rotate 2 div neg 0 moveto
.95 setgray
show
grestore

%%  This overlay produces a 1 inch
%%  tall DRAFT at a 45 degree angle in the center of the page.
%%  The routine is self-adjusting so any string can be placed in instead
%%  of DRAFT in the above routine and used.
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Can a postscript guru provide a modification to produce the
"DRAFT" in outline letters, rather than solid gray?

I don't read the newsgroup, so please mail replies to
malis@bbn.com or ...!bbn!malis.  I promise to post a working
reply.

Thanks, as they say, in advance.

Andy Malis <malis@bbn.com>    UUCP: {harvard,rutgers,uunet}!bbn!malis
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From: malis@bbn.com (Andy Malis)
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Subject: character outlines
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Date: 7 Apr 89 12:16:41 GMT
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