[Remind-Fans] Trying to change the font size for specific entries when using rem2ps

[Justin Alcorn]

I absolutely love the fact that there are still people in this world that
know how to write and optimize PostScript.

It makes me pine for the days that I knew and used LaTeX every day.

And also, from me...Thank you Dianne!
-- 
Justin B. Alcorn
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On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 5:59 PM Craig B Agricola via Remind-fans <
remind-fans at lists.skoll.ca> wrote:

> At the risk of being overly pedantic (but I have an unnatural love for
> writing
> Postscript), there's faster code for the prefix that you suggested.  Since
> you
> are using gsave/grestore, we don't care about eventual scaling-creep from
> scaling up and then scaling back down, so you can use
>
> (gsave currentfont 1.5 scalefont setfont) (grestore)
>
> That saves the dictionary lookup of both /EntryFont and /EntrySize.  It
> would
> also play nice if there was some other prefix/postfix code that this was
> combined with.
>
> I fully acknowlege that nowadays the speedup is likely unimportant because
> the
> processor that the Postscript is running on is way too fast for it to
> matter,
> but "back in the day" Postscript was being run in printers with slow CPUs
> that
> would have cared, especially if this was being done to multiple reminders
> on
> the calendar...
>
>  Cheers,
>   -Craig
>
> PS. Since I don't post on the list often, I'll say "Thanks!" to Dianne
> again
>     for Remind!
>
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 04:36:05PM -0500, Dianne Skoll via Remind-fans
> wrote:
> > The two ()()s after the reminder are PostScript strings; they contain
> > PostScript code executed before and after rendering the reminder.  So
> > edit to:
> >
> > % ==============================
> > [
> >   [(Friend's)(Birthday)
> > (gsave /EntryFont findfont EntrySize 1.5 mul scalefont
> setfont)(grestore)]
> > ]
> > (30) 1
> > DoCalBox
> > % ==============================
> >
> > That executes:
> >
> >    gsave /EntryFont findfont EntrySize 1.5 mul scalefont setfont
> >
> > prior to rendering the reminder, which does the following:
> >    gsave                       - save graphics context
> >    /EntryFont findfont         - find the font used to draw calendar
> entries
> >    EntrySize 1.5 mul scalefont - scale it up to 1.5x normal size
> >    setfont                     - and set the font
> >
> > Then after the reminder is rendered, grestore restores the graphics
> context.
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