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Don't forget the showpage at the end.
"%" is the PostScript comment character. PostScript ignores everything from the "%" to the end of line. "%" does not indicate a comment when it occurs inside of parentheses.
(%) show % this line images a "%" char
Remember that findfont, scalefont and setfont should be used as a group, trying to use only some of the three doesn't do what you want.
We choose size 18 because we wanted 1/4" letters. We have 72 units per inch, and 1/4 of 72 is 18.
Text does not need to be imaged in any particular order, we could just as easily imaged the small type before the large type.
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% Solution to exercise 1
/Helvetica findfont
18 scalefont
setfont
300 754 moveto
(Michael E. Fryd) show
/Helvetica-Bold findfont
300 scalefont setfont
72 144 moveto
(Large Type) show
showpage
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