On 18-Jan-2015 12:32:56 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Cartsen, > >> Robert Thorsby wrote: >> > I need to set some text (eg., Lorem Ipsum) along the arc of a curve >> > (eg, a circle). The curve itself need not be visible. >> >> Heirloom troff has a .pshape request for that. > > Robert's after text that follows the path of a circle rather than a > paragraph with indent and line length such that its shape is a circle > AIUI. > > Robert, Adobe's `Blue Book' has a couple of PostScript examples that > might be useful. I found some copies. > > https://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~milanek/PostScript/Examples/blue_book/README > > https://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~milanek/PostScript/Examples/blue_book/Circul > arText_10.ps > > https://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~milanek/PostScript/Examples/blue_book/TextAl > ongArbPath_11.ps > > Cheers, Ralph.
And the "Blue Book", i.e. the "PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook" can be downloaded (it was published in 1985) from: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF The circular text example, with its generating PostScript code, is given as Program 10, pages 168-171, of this version, in the Cookbook section. Program 11 (pages 172-175) gives the "Placing Text Along an Arbitrary Path" example, along with the generating code. Apparently it can also be downloaded also from Adobe themselves as a zip file at: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/sdk/sample/BlueBook.zip (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript -- see under "External Links"). (And I've only just started on writing an account of this sort of thing in groff -- I'll update you all later). Best wishes to all, Ted. ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 18-Jan-2015 Time: 19:49:34 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------
