Mouse Pads - Postscript surrogate
2007-12-25 8:29:00
> I seem to remember that some while ago someone gave a pointer to a
> source for a postscript file which, when printed, could be used as a
> mouse pad for a Sun optical mouse.
>
>
> Please could you remind me where it was - I will summarise.
I have had several copies sent to me of a mousepad for a Type 3 mouse.
Unfortunately it doesn't work for a type 4, and neither changing the
scaling in the Postscript file nor reducing on a photo-copier worked :-(
It was pointed out to me that SunExpress sell replacement mouse pads
at a very reasonable rate (in UK, (pounds)13), so that seems a more
promising avenue.
Thanks to
tommy@boole.att.com (Tommy Reingold)
"Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
ept@ornl.gov ( E P Tinnel)
led@abend.cc.purdue.edu (Lew Doll)
Steve Simmons <scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
jayl@lattice.com (Jay Lessert)
szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
Kenton "C." Phillips <kenton@space.mit.edu>
eraatorn@kibs10.ericsson.se (Anders Tornqvist)
dsnmkey@guinness.ericsson.se (Martin Kelly)
cws <cws@math.ufl.edu>
todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff)
And here is the file - it is less than 1K
----8<--snip--snip-------------------------------------------------------------
%!
%% Sun 3 mouse pad
%% Copyright 1987, BeakSoft Inc.
%% All Rights Reserved
%% Permission is granted to copy and use this without charge as long
%% as the copyright notices remain intact.
%%
%%
gsave
90 rotate
/ZapfChancery-MediumItalic findfont 24 scalefont setfont
5 -40 moveto
(This is a mouse pad. It works!) show
( 1987, BeakSoft Inc.)
dup
stringwidth pop
10.9 72 mul
exch sub
dup /copyr exch def
-40 moveto
show
/Symbol findfont 24 scalefont setfont
(\343)
dup
stringwidth pop
copyr exch sub
-40 moveto
show
grestore
.8 setlinewidth
50 0 moveto
250
{ 2.4 0 rmoveto gsave 0 11 72 mul rlineto stroke grestore } repeat
.6 setlinewidth
50 0 moveto
300 { 0 2.8 rmoveto gsave 8.5 72 mul 0 rlineto stroke grestore } repeat
showpage
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