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Self explanatory, a simple chessboard example… Continue reading
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Illustrations using curveto operator and patterns
The example below is significant due to the outline illustration of the car. Similar examples with text modifications with the charpath operator are found here (http://setpagedevice.com/2011/10/a-few-postscript-text-effects/). I handcoded the outline of the car by importing a picture of my car into a PostScript file and using points around the car generated … Continue reading
Curving corners with arct
Here is an example of using the arct command to create a path with rounded corners. By clipping the path before painting an image, it gives the rounded edge effect. For this example I’ve used a gsave to save the graphics state and grestored after painting the image area so we can then use the … Continue reading
A few PostScript text effects…
I saw an advertisement that had outlined and filled text and I thought I would come up with some examples in PostScript to do similar and more. I created 6 examples in this post and pasted the code below each rastered example. Don’t throw out your drawing packages yet, while these … Continue reading
Using the arc and arcn command
Using the arc and arcn commands can be useful in drawing simple 2d objects. This post contains a simple example of a basic gear. Continue reading
Post-processing to include a stock background
Traditionally with monochrome digital printing over shells (lithographic printed stock) there is the occasional requirement to produce the soft proofs, or archive ready statements as PDF files with the base-stock showing. This article suggests a method of achieving this in PostScript workflows by manipulating the original PostScript file and modification of Prologue.ps for the Distilling … Continue reading
Pad Printing – a JavaScript PostScript Generator
Click on the above header to view a JavaScript PostScript Generator that can be used for pad printing. Continue reading
Timing Techniques for PostScript
As mentioned in my article for optimising PostScript files with PaintProc and Execform this post attempts to demonstrate a couple of ways of using timing techniques to measure and hopefully help to improve raster image process (RIP) performance. Continue reading
Fast ps2pdf using PDFMarks
In the previous post it was illustrated how to utilise images within PostScript forms for fast image caching, however this does not apply to all PostScript interpreters. While GhostScript honours the execform command, it does not utilise caching. If you are creating the … Continue reading
PostScript PaintProc and Execform Example
This post contains two examples of a basic PostScript file, with and without using PostScript Forms. Continue reading