Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Any idea?

Perhaps something like the aqua effect suffices?

Example:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/aqua_text.png

Explanation:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/#gel_effects

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Any idea?

Perhaps something like the aqua effect suffices?

Example:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/aqua_text.png

Explanation:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/#gel_effects

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Any idea?

Perhaps something like the aqua effect suffices?

Example:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/aqua_text.png

Explanation:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/advanced/#gel_effects

how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem 
I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg
I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in 
tik-z) but could find anything that can do highlights on text to get the 3d effects.
I even tried downloading a font creation tool and create a new font with these 
glyphs instead of producing the effect, but it seems that fonts can only contain 
b/w bitmaps as far as I can tell and no highlight effects


Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Thanks

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote:

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.


If it's possible to call it from inside latex then it's a good solution. I want 
to create a beamer theme that takes the slide header and typesets the text with 
a 3d effect, so I need something that works as a latex package and commands.


I've also looked into asymptote, but don't see anything that seems to be able to 
do the job either ...


I'm looking for something that can work like tikz or asymptote, i.e include a 
package, wrap the text with some commands and get the effect

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100
Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com wrote:

  Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?
 Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
 such drawings for you.
 
 See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
 
 Best regards,
 Stefaan.
 

I've gotten close by using \write18 to create the image to include. Still not 
ideal as I'm not sure about getting a two line title but that is minor.

The question remains now of how to achieve the 3d effect with an external 
program so that I get the text image to include. Got the shadow rather easily 
but can't manage to get the highlights for the text. Any idea? (gotten close 
with gimp but I don't know how to automate it, still far away with convert)

It's still only tested with straight latex, will see how to handle \write18 
from within lyx later on

how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem 
I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg
I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in 
tik-z) but could find anything that can do highlights on text to get the 3d effects.
I even tried downloading a font creation tool and create a new font with these 
glyphs instead of producing the effect, but it seems that fonts can only contain 
b/w bitmaps as far as I can tell and no highlight effects


Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Thanks

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote:

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.


If it's possible to call it from inside latex then it's a good solution. I want 
to create a beamer theme that takes the slide header and typesets the text with 
a 3d effect, so I need something that works as a latex package and commands.


I've also looked into asymptote, but don't see anything that seems to be able to 
do the job either ...


I'm looking for something that can work like tikz or asymptote, i.e include a 
package, wrap the text with some commands and get the effect

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100
Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com wrote:

  Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?
 Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
 such drawings for you.
 
 See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
 
 Best regards,
 Stefaan.
 

I've gotten close by using \write18 to create the image to include. Still not 
ideal as I'm not sure about getting a two line title but that is minor.

The question remains now of how to achieve the 3d effect with an external 
program so that I get the text image to include. Got the shadow rather easily 
but can't manage to get the highlights for the text. Any idea? (gotten close 
with gimp but I don't know how to automate it, still far away with convert)

It's still only tested with straight latex, will see how to handle \write18 
from within lyx later on

how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem 
I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg
I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in 
tik-z) but could find anything that can do highlights on text to get the 3d effects.
I even tried downloading a font creation tool and create a new font with these 
glyphs instead of producing the effect, but it seems that fonts can only contain 
b/w bitmaps as far as I can tell and no highlight effects


Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Thanks

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote:

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.


If it's possible to call it from inside latex then it's a good solution. I want 
to create a beamer theme that takes the slide header and typesets the text with 
a 3d effect, so I need something that works as a latex package and commands.


I've also looked into asymptote, but don't see anything that seems to be able to 
do the job either ...


I'm looking for something that can work like tikz or asymptote, i.e include a 
package, wrap the text with some commands and get the effect

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100
Stefaan Himpe  wrote:

> > Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?
> Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
> such drawings for you.
> 
> See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefaan.
> 

I've gotten close by using \write18 to create the image to include. Still not 
ideal as I'm not sure about getting a two line title but that is minor.

The question remains now of how to achieve the 3d effect with an external 
program so that I get the text image to include. Got the shadow rather easily 
but can't manage to get the highlights for the text. Any idea? (gotten close 
with gimp but I don't know how to automate it, still far away with convert)

It's still only tested with straight latex, will see how to handle \write18 
from within lyx later on