On 19/01/15 15:04:50, James K. Lowden wrote:
In musing about PostScript I came across "Mathematical Illustrations"
by Bill Casselman, http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/ and
his example of text-on-a-path on page 3 of the preface,
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/pdf/preface.pdf. The
technique is explicated in Appendix 7.
First, thank you to everyone who responded.
I was trying to create some Do-Nut shaped text for a CD cover so
Adobe's Bluebook and its example circular text PS file contained what I
needed.
Initially, I couldn't make it work until I realised that, having been
created with PS-Adobe-2.0, the PS file did not contain a Bounding Box.
This also meant that the mid-Altantic dimensions of the file (612x792)
resulted in it being printed upside down over an entire page of my A4
document.
I used the utility psfixbb to insert a Bounding Box (which trimmed off
all the surrounding extraneous whitespace) into the PS file, saving the
output as eps. This eps file behaved itself when positioned with the
.PSPIC request.
It was then simply a matter of adjusting by trial and error the four
arguments in the PS file in accordance with the Bluebook at p.169 (and
remembering to re-run psfixbb).
Thanks again,
Robert
