How can you create postscript that Illustrator will accept as 'outlines' and not a text path?
Hi,
I'm trying to write some postscript into an EPS that Illustrator CS2 will interpret the same way as if you were to create some text in Illustrator, and hit Type - Create Outlines, which converts the text to curves and makes it un-editable, and doesn't require the client to have that font installe, which is Helvetica.
This code fails to do so...
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
%%Creator:
%%Title: None
%%CreationDate: 20/01/2011
%%DocumentData: Clean7Bit
%%Origin: 0 0
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
%%CropBox: 0 0 595 842
%%LanguageLevel: 2
%%Pages: 1
%%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
%%BeginDefaults
%%EndDefaults
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%EndProlog
%%BeginSetup
%%EndSetup
%%BeginPageSetup
%%EndPageSetup
/Helvetica-Bold findfont
dup
length 1 add
dict
begin
currentdict
copy
/PaintType 2 def/StrokeWidth 25 def
/Helvetica-Bold-O
currentdict definefont
pop
end
/Helvetica-Bold-O
60 selectfont
72 600 moveto
(Binky & Friends) show
showpage
%%PageTrailer
%%Trailer
%%EOF
As does this... (taken from the Blue Book)
% -------- Procedures --------
/Helvetica-Bold findfont
30 scalefont setfont
/oshow %stack: (string)
{ true charpath stroke } def
/circleofAdobe
{ 15 15 345
{ gsave
rotate 0 0 moveto
(Adobe) oshow
grestore
} for
} def
% --- Begin Program ---
250 400 translate
.5 setlinewidth
circleofAdobe
0 0 moveto
(Adobe Systems) true charpath
gsave 1 setgray fill grestore
stroke
showpage
Hope you can help,
Matt
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