[texhax] Text following a curve

[Victor Ivrii]

On 9/8/06, E. Krishnan <ekmath at asianetindia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, H V wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to write a text following a curve in a tikzfigure
> > environment, but cannot manage.
>
> I'm not familiar with the package you mention, but have you looked
> at the "PSTricks" package  for this purpose? For example,
>
>
>       \documentclass{article}
>       \usepackage{pstricks,pst-plot,pst-text}
>
>       \begin{document}
>
>       \begin{pspicture}(-3,-1)(3,5)
>         \psaxes[labels=none,linecolor=gray](0,0)(-3,-1)(3,5)
>         \pstextpath{%
>         \psplot[linestyle=none]{-2}{2}{4 x 2 exp sub}}{%
>           This is the graph of the equation $y=4-x^2$ for
>           $-2\le x\le 2$}
>       \end{pspicture}
>
>       \end{document}


Very nice! Is there a way to make it pdflatex compatible?

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> Krishnan
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