GRADUATED GRAYSCALE LOGO
03-Nov-88 05:52:12
Sb: #6501-GRADUATED GRAYSCALE LOGO
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