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<p>I have been playing with Adobe Photoshop's "blending options" for
text recently, adding a gold or metallic texture to otherwise
plain text. The results are visually very striking, and I
therefore began to wonder whether similar functionality might one
day be added to Pdf/XeTeX, in the former case natively and in the
latter case via \specials and an extended (x)dvipdfm(x) driver.</p>
<p>Three examples of the sorts of effect I have in mind can be seen
at :</p>
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<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7a1383rb1dx2vp/Ao%20dais.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/b7a1383rb1dx2vp/Ao%20dais.pdf?dl=0</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7s6s7n9w8popiyg/MENU%20001%20new%20ellipse.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/7s6s7n9w8popiyg/MENU%20001%20new%20ellipse.pdf?dl=0</a></li>
<li><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/smmcjy9zuuxa1nu/MENU%20001%20%28metallic%20gold%20text%20demo%29.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/smmcjy9zuuxa1nu/MENU%20001%20%28metallic%20gold%20text%20demo%29.pdf?dl=0</a></li>
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<p>I would be interested in others' reactions to this.</p>
<p>Philip Taylor<br>
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