MMAC@vax.oxford.ac.uk (The_Edible_Dormouse) (07/17/90)
Here's another little postscript 'short' to include as a \special...add it after you after produced your final layout as it needs to be measured up. Its effect? Draws a window (shaded box with darker shadow) over a table, area of text etc below the \special command. Anyone out there really clever want ot work out a way to make it automatically scale? :-) This is based on a routine on my local vax...all credit to OUCS as far as I know...all blame to me of course. %----------------------start of ps file-------------------------- % first part draws the light shaded rectangle 72 72 scale % units are now inches instead of big points newpath % prepare to draw a rectangle -.1 -0.3 moveto % top left corner is a little left and above origin 0 -0.9 rlineto % down 1.2 (depth of your box) 5.3 0 rlineto % right 5.5 (width of your box) 0 0.9 rlineto % up 1.2 closepath % complete rectangle gsave % save current path .92 setgray % use very light shading on LaserWriter (0=black, 1=white) fill % paint interior of rectangle grestore % restore current path .01 setlinewidth % thickness of borders stroke % paint borders newpath 0 -1.2 moveto % these next lines draw the shadow of the window 0 -0.1 rlineto % the dimensions are in inches and are x,y ordered 5.3 0 rlineto % all movement commands are relative 0 0.9 rlineto -0.1 0 rlineto 0 -0.8 rlineto closepath 0 setgray fill showpage %-----------------------end of ps file----------------- The effect is very impressive---looks quite 'dtpish' if used sparingly. Edi =============================================================================== MMAC@UK.AC.OX.VAX (Janet) = The opinions expressed above are MMAC%VAX.OX.AC.UK@UKACRL.BITNET (Bitnet) = not necessarily those of any person MMAC%VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK@NSS.CS.UCL.AC.UK = living, dead, undead or the subject (Internet) = of a Schrodinger's cat experiment. "Trust me I'm a Physicist !" = They may or may not be my own. ===============================================================================
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (07/19/90)
In article <9007181350.AA22847@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MMAC@vax.oxford.ac.uk (The_Edible_Dormouse) writes:
needs to be measured up. Its effect? Draws a window (shaded box
with darker shadow) over a table, area of text etc below the
\special command.
Anyone out there really clever want ot work out a way to make it
automatically scale? :-)
thats not very tricky.... just put the text in a box, get the size of
the box, then rewrite your PS so that the dimensions are
parameterized.
another solution is to put a TeX rule over the top of your box, and
put specials around that to change the gray level.
incidentally, I strongly recommend James Clark's dvitops to anyone who
likes a good interface for their PostScript \specials. It provides
some useful builtins, like changing gray level or color
sebastian
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