From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4629 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PSTricks vs. Metapost Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:38:24 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010507103824.019722a0@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395279 27278 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "NTG ConTeXt" Original-To: "Dan Seracu" In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4629 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4629 At 09:09 AM 5/7/01 +0300, Dan Seracu wrote: >I recently discovered an interesting feature of PSTricks: the ability >of putting blured shadows for almost anything (that is photo >realistic shadow). I wonder if metapost can do something like this. > >In pstricks it looks like (for example a charpath): > >\pscharpath[shadow=true, blur=true, blursteps=10]{Cucurigu for >\c{a}striu.} % non sense text. i must run an very old pstricks since \pscharpath is unknown; but anyhow, maybe you can do this with the macros that handle outlines, see makempy.pdf for more info and examples Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------