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.

Three examples of the sorts of effect I have in mind can be seen at :

I would be interested in others' reactions to this.

Philip Taylor


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