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How to Fill a Psvectorian Ornament with Color

You could try an overlap with a very slight kern, perhaps. MWE \documentclass[12pt]{book} \usepackage{pstricks,psvectorian} \usepackage{color} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{...
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How to Fill a Psvectorian Ornament with Color

For fun with Asymptote. Run with asy -f pdf <file name>.asy. Update settings.tex="xelatex"; usepackage("pstricks"); usepackage("psvectorian"); path[] g=texpath(&...
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How to Give Stars a Glow Effect

Here is an idea using tikz and fadings. The command \glowstar[<size>]{x,y} called inside a tikzpicture will make a glowing star at the given coordinates. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{...
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How to Fill a Psvectorian Ornament with Color

\psvectorian[width=2.1cm,color=red]{57} is the right way to change the line color. However, there is no fillcolor because nearly all symbols have no closed curve!
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How to add new ornaments to psvectorian?

It does not make real sense to extend the psvectorian package. It is much more easier to use a single graphic file. However, if you really want it, then copy the files psvectorian.tex and psvectorian....
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Conflict between `tcolorbox` and `auto-pst-pdf`

If you really need this combination you can just use tcolorbox on the main document, with pdflatex, and skip it on the inner call that uses latex and handles the pstricks code. \documentclass{article} ...
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How to Produce a Bold Psvectorian Image

\documentclass[12pt]{book} \usepackage{pstricks,psvectorian} \makeatletter \def\psBoldVectorian{\@ifnextchar[\psBoldVectorian@i{\psBoldVectorian@i[]}} \def\psBoldVectorian@i[#1]#2{% \rput(0,0){\...
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How to Produce a Bold Psvectorian Image

A kind of fake bold can be simulated by putting the drawing twice, here with an overlap in the same colour, plus a small kern, and very slightly larger width. MWE \documentclass[12pt]{book} \...
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Are the Beige Fillcolors of These Two Pspictures Different; i.e., Picking Up the Hue of the Default Color?

You have to control the color definitions of the predefined colours. An RGB Beige is not the same as a CMYK Beige. PSTricks itself and xcolor use by default rgb, if not defined. try \usepackage[...
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how to draw special vintage borders ornaments

So, I learned tikz and made the following : Pretty happy with the result :) My code is based on the answer by esdd on this post. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[margin=4cm,a4paper]{geometry} \...
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how to draw special vintage borders ornaments

This article may be of some help. https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb32-2/tb101glister.pdf It is one of a collection of articles talking about various LaTeX (and other) aspects.
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How to insert an ornament between Part number and part title with psvectorian?

This should work: \documentclass[symmetric,justified,marginals=raggedouter]{tufte-book} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{psvectorian} \usepackage{auto-pst-pdf} % to use pstricks with pdflatex \...
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How to Produce a Vertical Kerning for a Psvectorian Image

It makes no sense to use text macros inside a graphical environement. Use always \rput: \documentclass[12pt]{book} \usepackage{pstricks,psvectorian} \usepackage{color} % Compiles with XELATEX \begin{...
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Surround decoration with pgfornament

Here is an attempt at providing a solution. I tried to preserve as much of the existing code as possible rather than starting again. I made these key changes to your code: \mathscr requires the ...
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Conflict between `tcolorbox` and `auto-pst-pdf`

My suggestion would be to use the pgfornament package instead which offers more or less the same ornamental symbols and is build upon PGF like the tcolorbox package. This way, you won't easily run ...
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Customizing Theorem Enviroment using Psvectorian

This is more like a showcase, not a general solution. It is a method using tcolorbox and pgfornament. However it was not automatic, you need manfully adjust how many segments you want to form the left ...
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How to Outline a Feather (Psvectorian Image)

Just a draft. I have to provide a new PostScript header (mypst.pro) which forks the definition of feather (no. 94) and replaces original fill path operation with gsave <setting color> stroke ...
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How to Eliminate an Unseemly Seam in a Psvectorian bi-Colored Pspicture

\begin{pspicture}(-5,-5)(5,8) \psframe*[linecolor=blue!35](-5,-5)(0,8) \psframe*[linecolor=yellow!75](0,-5)(5,8) % oiseaux \rput[tr]{-30}(-1.3,5.15){\psvectorian[color=white,width=2.1cm]{57}} \rput[...
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Psvectorian not working when \overfullrule is > 0

The problem is the same as in Problem with \pspicture in a simple plain TeX code If you look at the part labeled “The same in TeX Live 2015” in my answer, you see where the problem arises: the fact ...
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