Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Helge Blischke Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: 'eofill'ing areas Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:59:20 +0100 Lines: 87 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart1436937.V9SEqChMir" X-Trace: individual.net UdU+t1n9TfGlnhI1vvrE+w+MB1BIR5jlFQ/eV7TG58/IilTWrb Cancel-Lock: sha1:zdRkmH7cHWhlWhPZHKjOunRsijw= User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1313 --nextPart1436937.V9SEqChMir Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Michael Unger wrote: > On 2013-03-11 18:02, "Helge Blischke" wrote: > >> Dies the Acrobat 6 distiller emit any log messages? > > There are log files created, but they are _very_ short (long line > wrapped for readability): > > ---><8------><8------><8------><8------><8------><8------><8------><8--- > > Processing prologue.ps... > Done processing prologue.ps. > Warning [DSC]: > PostScript code in the prolog should be in the procset resources > Processing epilogue.ps... > Done processing epilogue.ps. > > ---><8------><8------><8------><8------><8------><8------><8------><8--- > > Sometimes when external code snippets are invoked ("run") there are more > DSC warnings. > > Michael > Probably it is an distiller issiue with the charpath operator. The path generated by charpath should be appended to the current path (according to the PLRM) but it seems the distiller's implementation clears the current path in advance. I tested this with Mac OS X pstopdf utility (which is used with the preview application as well). For demonstrating this bug, I slightly modified your PS job by - only rendering the logo - replacing the eofill by stroking You will see that only the "test" outline gets visible, but if you uncomment the line % gsave 0 setgray 0.5 setlinewidth stroke grestore % uncomment this line for you will see the enclosing rectangle as well, which in this case is only retained because the stroke is enclosed in gsave and grestore Helge --nextPart1436937.V9SEqChMir Content-Type: image/x-eps; name="eofill_ing_areas" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="eofill_ing_areas" JSFQUy1BZG9iZS0zLjAgRVBTRi0zLjAKPDwgL1BhZ2VTaXplIFs1OTUuMyA4NDEuOV0KPj4gc2V0 cGFnZWRldmljZQoyOTcuNjUgNDIwLjk1IHRyYW5zbGF0ZSAgJSBjZW50ZXIgb2YgcGFnZQoKL2lu Y2ggezcyIG11bH0gZGVmCgovMzVtbUZpbG1GcmFtZSB7ICAlIHBlcmZvcmF0aW9uIHZhc3RseSBz aW1wbGlmaWVkCiAgICswLjc0ODAgaW5jaCArMC43MDAwIGluY2ggbW92ZXRvCiAgIC0wLjc0ODAg aW5jaCArMC43MDAwIGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgIC0wLjc0ODAgaW5jaCAtMC43MDAwIGluY2ggbGlu ZXRvCiAgICswLjc0ODAgaW5jaCAtMC43MDAwIGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgICswLjc0ODAgaW5jaCAr MC43MDAwIGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgICswLjcwODYgaW5jaCArMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbW92ZXRvCiAg IC0wLjcwODYgaW5jaCArMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgIC0wLjcwODYgaW5jaCAtMC40NzI0 IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgICswLjcwODYgaW5jaCAtMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgICswLjcw ODYgaW5jaCArMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgIC0wLjY1NDUgaW5jaCArMC41ODYyIGluY2gg dHJhbnNsYXRlCiAgICswLjAxOTAgaW5jaCArMC4wNTUwIGluY2ggbW92ZXRvCiAgIC0wLjAzOTAg aW5jaCArMC4wNTUwIGluY2ggLTAuMDM5MCBpbmNoICswLjAzNTAgaW5jaCAwLjAyMDAgaW5jaCBh cmN0CiAgIC0wLjAzOTAgaW5jaCAtMC4wNTUwIGluY2ggLTAuMDE5MCBpbmNoIC0wLjA1NTAgaW5j aCAwLjAyMDAgaW5jaCBhcmN0CiAgICswLjAzOTAgaW5jaCAtMC4wNTUwIGluY2ggKzAuMDM5MCBp bmNoIC0wLjAzNTAgaW5jaCAwLjAyMDAgaW5jaCBhcmN0CiAgICswLjAzOTAgaW5jaCArMC4wNTUw IGluY2ggKzAuMDE5MCBpbmNoICswLjA1NTAgaW5jaCAwLjAyMDAgaW5jaCBhcmN0CiAgIGVvZmls bAp9IGRlZgoKL0xvZ28geyAgJSB3aXRoaW4gdGhlIDI0IG1tIHggMzYgbW0gZmlsbSBmcmFtZSBh cmVhCiAgICswLjcwODYgaW5jaCArMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbW92ZXRvCiAgIC0wLjcwODYgaW5jaCAr MC40NzI0IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgIC0wLjcwODYgaW5jaCAtMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAg ICswLjcwODYgaW5jaCAtMC40NzI0IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiAgICswLjcwODYgaW5jaCArMC40NzI0 IGluY2ggbGluZXRvCiUgZ3NhdmUgMCBzZXRncmF5IDAuNSBzZXRsaW5ld2lkdGggc3Ryb2tlIGdy ZXN0b3JlICUgdW5jb21tZW50IHRoaXMgbGluZSBmb3IgdGVzdGluZwogICAvSGVsdmV0aWNhLUJv bGQgMzYgc2VsZWN0Zm9udAogICArMC4wMDAwIGluY2ggLTAuMDUwMCBpbmNoIG1vdmV0bwogICAo dGVzdCkgc3RyaW5nd2lkdGggcG9wIC0wLjUgbXVsIDAgcm1vdmV0bwogICAodGVzdCkgdHJ1ZSBj aGFycGF0aAolICAgZW9maWxsCjAgc2V0Z3JheSAwLjUgc2V0bGluZXdpZHRoIHN0cm9rZQp9IGRl ZgoKMC4wIDAuMCAwLjggMC4wIHNldGNteWtjb2xvcgpMb2dvCjAuMSAwLjAgMC4wIDAuOSBzZXRj bXlrY29sb3IKJTM1bW1GaWxtRnJhbWUKc2hvd3BhZ2UK --nextPart1436937.V9SEqChMir--