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GRADUATED GRAYSCALE LOGO

    03-Nov-88 05:52:12
Fm: Gary McGath 72145,1014
To: JOHN R. HAYNES 73710,2657
That's a fairly complicated order. I'd do something like the following: save /Helvetica-BlackOblique findfont 32 scalefont setfont (Your logo) true charpath clip ;make the logo the clipping path /grayval 0 def Then, in a for loop, set the gray level (with setgray) to grayval, draw a rectangle covering part of the area, increase the value of grayval towards 1 (in small enough increments that it looks continuous), increase the y value for the next rectangle (moving upwards), and loop till you've covered the whole logo clipping path. Then finally, restore