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<font face="Myriad Pro">Hi Martin,<br>
<br>
if you define your object as a polygon, you might get the desired
solution.<br>
Here some inspiration, however i am not quite sure if this leads into
your wnated direction.<br>
<br>
\documentclass{article}<br>
\usepackage{pstricks}<br>
\usepackage{pst-blur}<br>
\usepackage{multido}<br>
<br>
\pagestyle{empty}<br>
<br>
\begin{document}<br>
<br>
\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(4,5)<br>
\pspolygon[linecolor=gray,fillcolor=gray,fillstyle=solid,linewidth=0pt,shadow=true,blur=true,shadowsize=3pt,shadowangle=-55](-0.2,0)(2.2,0)(2.2,0.2)(2,0.2)(2,0.4)(2.2,0.4)(2.2,0.6)(-0.2,0.6)(-0.2,0.4)(0,0.4)(0,0.2)(-0.2,0.2)<br>
\psframe[linecolor=gray,fillcolor=red,fillstyle=solid](0,0)(2,0.6)<br>
\rput(1,0.2){\footnotesize\bfseries\textsf{CPU}}<br>
\end{pspicture}<br>
\end{document} <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Juergen<br>
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Martin R&ouml;hricht wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:467C0E19.3040105@wudika.de" type="cite">
  <pre wrap="">On 22.06.2007 18:12, Herbert Voss wrote:
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  <pre wrap=""><!---->
This is already a wonderful improvement. Thank you very much for all 
your help and the time that you invest on other person's problems.
I was curious if it is possible to make the object look a bit more 
3-dimensional, e.g. by adding a shadowing (blur) effect to it, such that 
all edges are handled as if the object wasn't composed of different 
smaller elements rather as if the object was coherent.

If I try the following, the result is not what it is intended to be:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}

\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-blur}
\usepackage{multido}

\pagestyle{empty}
\makeatletter
\def\pstCPU{\pst@object{pstCPU}}
\def\pstCPU@i(#1)#2{{%   #1: lower left #2: text
   \psset{framearc=0.2,linecolor=gray,fillcolor=gray,fillstyle=solid}%
default
   \begin@ClosedObj
   \rput[lb](#1){%
   \multirput[lb](0,0)(0,0.3){5}{\psline[linewidth=4pt](-0.1,0.2)(1.5,0.2)}
   \psframe(1.4,1.6)
   \rput(0.7,1.4){\footnotesize\bfseries\textsf{CPU#2}}}
   \end@ClosedObj}%
   \ignorespaces%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(4,5)
\multido{\rA=0+2,\iB=0+1}{2}{\pstCPU[fillcolor=red!50](\rA,3.4){-\iB}}
\psset{shadow=true,blur=true,shadowsize=10pt}
\pstCPU[fillcolor=blue!10,blurradius=5pt](0,0){-X}
\pstCPU[linecolor=black](3,0){-XX}
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}

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I really appreciate any help,
Martin
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