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LaTeX: Happy Snowman’s Day 2020
%#!pdflatex
\documentclass[margin=0pt]{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern,pifont}
\usepackage{xcolor,scsnowman,tikzducks,pgfmath}
\newcommand*{\cLet}{\pgfmathsetmacro}
\setlength{\unitlength}{1bp}
\colorlet{bgcolor}{blue!30!green!10}
\pagecolor{bgcolor}
%
\cLet{\xCS}{80}\cLet{\yCS}{320}
\cLet{\vT}{\number\faStopTicks/\number\faAllTicks}
\cLet{\vST}{(\vT-0.5)*2}
\cLet{\yH}{\yCS-\xCS}
\cLet{\xT}{\xCS/2}
\cLet{\yT}{\yH+\xCS/2-\yH*\vST*\vST}
\cLet{\vEA}{exp(\vST*5)}\cLet{\vEB}{exp(\vST*(-5))}
\cLet{\vRA}{((\vEA-\vEB)/(\vEA+\vEB)*0.5+0.5)*4}
\cLet{\vRB}{mod(round(\vRA*1800)/5,360)}
%
\newcommand{\cTwo}{%
\makebox(0,0){\tikz[scale=0.24]{\duck[%
body=blue!50!green,bill=blue!50!green]}}}
\newcommand{\cZero}{%
\fontsize{16}{0}\selectfont
\makebox(0,1){\color{blue!50!green}\ding{108}}%
\makebox(1,0){\color{bgcolor}\scalebox{0.8}{\ding{93}}}}
%
\begin{document}%
\begin{picture}(400,360)(0,-20)
\put(120,\yT){\makebox(0,0){\rotatebox[origin=c]{-\vRB}{%
\scsnowman[hat=blue!80!green!75!black,
muffler=blue!50!green,
arms=green!30!black!50,
snow=blue!80!green!40,
scale=12]}}}
\put(280,\yT){\makebox(0,0){\rotatebox[origin=c]{\vRB}{%
\scsnowman[hat=blue!50!green,
muffler=blue!80!green!75!black,
arms=green!30!black!50,
snow=blue!80!green!40,
scale=12]}}}
\put(200,260){\makebox(0,0){\textcolor{blue!50!green!60}{%
\fontsize{48}{0}\sffamily\bfseries\ding{100}}}}
\put(200,200){\makebox(0,0){\textcolor{blue!85!black}{%
\fontsize{28}{40}\sffamily\bfseries\itshape
{Happy Snowman's Day}}}}
\put(200,144){\cTwo}
\put(200,112){\cZero}
\put(200,080){\cTwo}
\put(200,048){\cZero}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
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zr-tex8r commented Aug 9, 2020

Get tcspingif.pl and run the following command.
(Requied: TeX Live, ImageMagick, Ghostscript, Perl)

perl tcspingif.pl -e pdflatex -t 64 -d 108 snowmansday2020.tex

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