Postscript file to print Valentino Rossi's "Racing 46" stickers

I couldn't find any files to print stickers, and I think it's stupid to pay $10 to have a sticker printed and shipped to me from England, when I can print as many as I want at the size I want on my own printer. And I'm sure all those places have merchandising permission... uh huh. At least I'm not making money from this.

Right-click HERE and choose "Save Link Target As" in your browser to download the file.

I wanted something to offset the creepy and nasty NASCAR dead guy Dale Ernhardt stickers that all the rednecks have around here.

Q: How can you tell the difference between a NASCAR fan and a MotoGP fan?

A: The motorcycle fans can tell if their favorite racer is dead or not.

I eyeballed this from a picture of the front of the blue M1 and wrote the Postscript by hand from scratch. I've since noticed that the sticker on his laptop, the front of the yellow M1, and the artwork in a few other places are all slightly different from each other. This'll do good enough for me.

It's written in Postscript (which is a vector format) so that it will nicely scale to any size you want without jaggies. You can't do that with a raster/bitmap format. It's also a standard format so you can take it to a print shop if you want a REALLY nice sticker. The GIF above was generated from the Postscript, and I've also printed it out on legal-size paper and it looks good.

Printing it out:

Since I use Linux, I either send it direct to my printer (which understands Postscript), or I use the GIMP to interactively size it.

You're on your own with Windows, as I don't use that. I tried GIMP for Windows but I couldn't get it working. I think Adobe Photoshop and Paintshop Pro can deal with Postscript.

Changing the image:

• You can edit it using any text editor.
• On UNIX, you can use gv to view it. Click "Watch File" under "State" to have changes appear automatically when you save the file.
• The colors are defined in only one place at the top of the file. If you're putting it on a dark background, you might want to change the border color.
• The border line width is defined in only one place at the top of the file, and you may adjust it to your liking.
• I decided to draw it by defining points, which are later used by the graphics operators. If you're confused as to which point is which, uncomment the "test points" code. This will put a red or green dot on the point you specify.
• Everything is defined in inches, assuming the image is printed on US legal-size paper.
• Your printing system may or may not require you to uncomment the "legal" size directive.
• You can adjust the tilt by adjusting the 2nd number in the matrix for the "concat" transform. This might sound difficult, but it's rather simple.