Received: from mail.proteosys.com ([213.139.130.197]) by nummer-3.proteosys with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:40:45 +0100 Received: by mail.proteosys.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id i12Eef81019803 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:40:43 +0100 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i12ETtiv012097; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:29:55 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3E99A.8A3D1480" Received: from listserv (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.176]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i12DhTM5005376; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:29:25 +0100 Received: from LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 0211 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:29:24 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (relay2.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.210.211]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.7/8.12.7/SuSE Linux 0.6) with ESMTP id i12ETKIn006411 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:29:24 +0100 Received: from A1.atlis.com (host5.atlis.com [216.181.97.5]) by relay2.uni-heidelberg.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i12ETESe015536 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:29:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from atlis.com (host-216-153-178-55.har.choiceone.net [216.153.178.55]) by A1.atlis.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i12EZJR02354 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2004 09:35:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wadams@atlis.com) In-Reply-To: Organization: Atlis Systems, Inc. (301) 578-4200 info@atlis.com Return-Path: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Feb 2004 14:40:45.0691 (UTC) FILETIME=[8AA684B0:01C3E99A] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Spam-Score: 0 () Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: A job for eTeX. Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 15:28:56 +0100 Message-ID: A<21E9D5B8-558C-11D8-8F82-0050E4455404@atlis.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: A job for eTeX. Thread-Index: AcPpmorMl29itPr0RbG7YA/VPu8aAQ== From: "William F. Adams" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 4748 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3E99A.8A3D1480 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hmm, if you have a need for an immediate solution, I've got a really ugly hack which works around this..... Basically one makes a font consisting of specials which load .eps graphics each of which has just one letter. All one needs to do is to set the single letter in the .eps graphic to be a specific colour and it'll be that colour irregardless of the surrounding text. This also lets one get a Pantone spot colour into a file. Not very efficient, and really wants to be processed by dvips and a PostScript interpreter to stitch things back together (the concept would work in pdfTeX, but each letter would be a ``form'' graphic and the overhead and filesize would be horrendous --- the intermediate .ps files I'm getting before distilling are tens and hundreds of megabytes and I've not yet gotten to a full page). William -- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3E99A.8A3D1480 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: A job for eTeX.

Hmm, if you have a need for an immediate solution, = I've got a really
ugly hack which works around this.....

Basically one makes a font consisting of specials = which load .eps
graphics each of which has just one letter.

All one needs to do is to set the single letter in the = .eps graphic to
be a specific colour and it'll be that colour = irregardless of the
surrounding text. This also lets one get a Pantone = spot colour into a
file.

Not very efficient, and really wants to be processed = by dvips and a
PostScript interpreter to stitch things back together = (the concept
would work in pdfTeX, but each letter would be a = ``form'' graphic and
the overhead and filesize would be horrendous --- the = intermediate .ps
files I'm getting before distilling are tens and = hundreds of megabytes
and I've not yet gotten to a full page).

William

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William Adams, publishing specialist
voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708
www.atlis.com

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