#Text – How to?
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Using PostScript, I would like to print text in a 'special' way. I do not
know if what I want is possible without designing a font, which I do not
want to do as I am not sure how.
This may be a little hard to follow, but here goes. I want to print a
'fat' letter with a 'skinney' letter inside it. The following is an 'I'
trying to show what I want.
xxxxxxxxxx
xx x
xx x
xx x
xx x
xxxxxxxxxx
The Xs are black and the blank area is white. Also, there would be a
narrow white line in the top and bottom. That is, make the letter with
a wide felt pen (black) and then in the same place, make it again with a
small brush (white). I do not want to change the fonts bounding box
width or hight. I want to change the width of the 'stroke' while keeping
the same 'size'. I hope that this is clear!
Thanks in advance for any help.
If you're writing PostScript code directly, the easiest way to create a hollow
letter is to define the text as a charpath and stroke it along the outline.
This will create a uniform-thickness outline rule, which may not be exactly the
look you want. If you want something more elegant–a style like Goudy
Handtooled, where the white center of the letters is asymmetric relative to the
outline–there's no quick-'n'-dirty way to make it. And I haven't seen Goudy
Handtooled in anybody's PostScript font library yet.
Goudy Handtooled may not be out yet, but Caslon Open Face, which has the same
effect, is Adobe #72. It's one of my favorites since I'm a fan of small
x-heights.
…mm
Mike:
Goudy Handtooled is available from the URW library.
–jon