Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:51:51 -0500 From: Scott Hemphill Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: setlinecap and moveto: whose bug? References: <575b9db5-0632-4c5f-9bb3-a54a56fd929a@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:51:51 -0400 Message-ID: <87potdjlgo.fsf@hemphills.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:n4HagyROrzfFqm6lM8uZv8SdtE0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-F3tN92lGO4FXGDodydrWRr3W2Df2GV7gWwVnaIH8VBkzqo/ca2Dj43tDRIfOtPaVYkDW3kYk6qtVJVl!JyOYEn3wUU2JNElAeaMhYhWib3mwUHI03esHmWHrSr2VOKhepk5t830= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1732 X-Received-Bytes: 1844 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1289218611 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:2542 jdaw1 writes: > Please see the simple PostScript file > http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20160425_LineCap_bug.ps > and two output files: > http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20160425_LineCap_bug_Ghostscript.pdf > http://www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20160425_LineCap_bug_Distiller.pdf > > They differ. Which is correct? I'd say Distiller has it wrong. The wide line is supposed to have a butt cap. The Ghostscript output also agrees with my genuine PostScript printer. Scott -- Scott Hemphill hemphill@alumni.caltech.edu "This isn't flying. This is falling, with style." -- Buzz Lightyear