gross@umiami.miami.edu (JD144) (07/16/90)
Well, does anyone out there have a PS centering procedure? Something
that can take a text string and center it on the page?
If you do, please e-mail to me....thanks so much.
Have a day.
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Jason Gross Comp Sci Ugrad University of Miami Class of '91 (?)
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The University of Miami has a lovely fountain. hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) (07/18/90)
gross@umiami.miami.edu (JD144) writes: }Well, does anyone out there have a PS centering procedure? Something }that can take a text string and center it on the page? As penance for asking a lame question on left-side-bearings I'll take a shot at this one... (I wrote this yesterday, but don't have it in front of me, so excuse any minor oopses :-) ---------------cut here------------ %!PS % % Many ways to do this: you might want to leave the left and right % margins in "global variables" if you were going to do a lot of % these with the same margins, and you might want to keep the y % position global (and advance it with each CenterShow [use the % value popped after stringwidth]). /CenterShow { % % xleft xright y str CenterShow % % implict inputs include: current font, current color, etc... % 6 dict begin /str exch def /y exch def /xright exch def /xleft exch def xright xleft sub /xspace exch def % between margins str stringwidth pop /xwidth exch def % string width xspace xwidth sub 2 div y moveto % into position str show % show it end } bind def % === a simple sample === /inch {72 mul} bind def /Times-Roman findfont 14 scalefont setfont 1.25 inch 7.25 inch 9.5 inch (John Hascall was here) CenterShow showpage %-----------------cut here------------ John Hascall
mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) (07/19/90)
/* * gross@umiami.miami.edu (JD144) writes: * */ > Well, does anyone out there have a PS centering procedure? Something > that can take a text string and center it on the page? % Center String between 2 points % Call as: (string) Left_Point Right_Point Y_position center % /center { /ypos exch def add 2 div exch dup stringwidth pop /sw exch def exch sw 2 div neg add ypos moveto } def -- ..mitch mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) | The Pentagon, 1B1046 | (202) 695-0262 The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity, but not necessarily in that order.