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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 6-7-46 on page 450.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.83385pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pst-text,pst-blur}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\psset{linewidth=0.5pt,blur=true,blurradius=0.1cm,shadow=true,
    shadowcolor=black!60,shadowsize=0.3cm}
\begin{pspicture}(10,3)
  \psframe(3,2)\fontfamily{ptm}\selectfont
  \rput(1.5,1){\pscharpath{\fontsize{30}{30}\selectfont blur}}
  \pscircle(4.5,1){1}\pscircle(4.5,1){0.25}
  \rput(6.5,1){\pscharpath{\fontsize{60}{60}\selectfont A}}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}