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/pre
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:49:38 - (GMT)
(Ted Harding) wrote:
> 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 ge
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
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 w
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.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? A mailing list thread?
> Something in pic? Some postscript code?
Heirloom troff has a .pshape r
I did text round a circle using a .eps file, adapted from the
PostScript Cookbook.
In case it's any help I enclose it.
Denis
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:09:06 +1100
Robert Thorsby wrote:
> On 16/01/15 19:56:33, Ted Harding wrote:
> > On 16-Jan-2015 01:48:52 Robert Thorsby wrote:
> > > I need to set
On 16/01/15 19:56:33, Ted Harding wrote:
On 16-Jan-2015 01:48:52 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.
It can certainly be done, in various ways (including pic, and
PostScript tricks)
On 16-Jan-2015 01:48:52 Robert Thorsby wrote:
> Good morning List,
>
> 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.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? A mailing list thread?
> Something in pic? Some po
Good morning List,
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.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? A mailing list thread?
Something in pic? Some postscript code?
TIA,
Robert Thorsby
