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CS 3723/3721  Programming Languages  Fall 2004  Recitation 13  Postscript: Business Card     Week 13: Nov 15-19  Due (on time): 2004-11-22  23:59:59  Due (late):        2004-11-26  23:59:59

Recitation 13 must be submitted following directions at: submissions with deadlines 2004-11-22  23:59:59 (that's Monday, 22 November 2004, 11:59:59 pm) for full credit. 2004-11-26  23:59:59 (that's Friday, 26 November 2004, 11:59:59 pm) for 75% credit.

A Business Card in Postscript: For this recitation, you are to write a program in Postscript that will print a "business card", either for you, or for some fictitious individual or company.

Here are requirements for the recitation:

1. The initial card must be exactly 2 inches by 3.5 inches. With one run, translating the card if necessary, print a single copy of your card on a sheet of paper. (It might be easiest to put the lower left corner of the card at the origin (0, 0) of the Postscript coordinates, that is, the lower left corner of the page. Note that your card should be 144 points by 252 points.)
2. The outer 2 inch by 3.5 inch boundary must be stroked with a line of width 1 point.
3. Produce another copy of the same card, but magnified by a factor of 3 and printed horizontally, so that the final card will be 6 inches by 10.5 inches on one sheet. You will need to rotate by 90 degrees, and scale by 3 in both x and y directions, and translate by some amount, though perhaps not in that order. Recitations meeting last semester's specifications will not be accepted at all.
4. In a third run produce at least 5 copies of the output card at the initial size on a single sheet of paper. The Postscript code that produces these 5 copies must employ a Postscript loop.
5. At least one piece of text on the card must either be centered or right justified, using the stringwidth function, so that the text would remain centered or right-justified even if the font size is changed. (See the Blue Book, pages 42-43 for right justification, and pages 58-59 for centering. See also my handout with a card on it.)

Here are some additional features that I would like to see you incorporate into your card:

6. The use of some ``graphic object'', e.g., some picture made up of one or more paths.
7. The use of an outline around characters in a string. (See the example on page 98 of the Blue Book.)
8. The use of a clipping path. (See the Blue Book, pages 103-104.)

Finally, try to make it look interesting. Be creative. The card doesn't have to have your real name. Don't just copy the book or one another or my card below.

• The Diamond Cafe on pages 41-45: .html, .ps, .pdf.
• Omaha (actually a logo) on pages 57-59: .html, .ps, .pdf.
• Here is one of my own cards: .html, .ps, .pdf.

1. the first producing a 2 inch by 3.5 inch version of your business card.
2. The second producing a horizontal version of the card 3 times as big, of size 6 inches by 10.5 inches.
3. the third producing at least 5 copies of your business card at size 2 inches by 3.5 inches, all on one sheet of paper.

Then in the next class meeting (or under my door) submit printouts of the three programs, along with a printout of the output when the program is sent to a postscript printer. For full credit this should be on or before the start of class on Wednesday, 24 November 2004, the day before the Thanksgiving holiday.

The number of points credit you receive will depend on how interesting and complex your Postscript code is. Code that just copies code that you have been supplied will not get as much credit as more original code. (This is not an art assignment, and you are not being graded on "good graphic design.")

As in the previous Postscript assignment, it is permissible to use code from other sources as part of your card, but you must cite this source in the code that you submit.