[Tex/LaTex] Outlined characters

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How could I produce characters which are outlined when the character itself is in some color. A picture to illustrate what I'm after:
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The problems with the above are that:

  • the outline is of no consistent width around the letter.
  • the way I've done it (using tikz with a upscaled black node below the colored one), there is no easy way to control the width of the outline.

Do you know of a way to accomplish this with TeX? I am using plain-format with XeTeX, but I'm interested in all ways to accomplish this.

Best Answer

The pst-text package can do this.

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{pst-text}
\DeclareFixedFont{\RM}{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}{2cm}

\begin{document}
  \pscharpath[fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=magenta!50]{\RM TeXnik}
\end{document}

Perhaps you can migrate this to plain (Xe)TeX.

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