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| From | Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Subject | Re: 'eofill'ing areas |
| Date | Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:00:26 +0100 |
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On 2013-03-13 11:59, "Helge Blischke" wrote: > Probably it is an distiller issiue with the charpath operator. Apparently, yes, and a rather nasty bug. > 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). > > [...] I tried another approach as well: using "eoclip" instead of "eofill" to define just a clipping area, and then re-drawing the rectangle and filling it, which didn't work either. So I'll have to print white text onto a coloured background. By the way: using the "charpath" operator with a simple "clip" to define a clipping area _does_ work as expected. Therefore the bug may as well be within Distiller's "even-odd" logic. Michael -- Real names enhance the probability of getting real answers. My e-mail account at DECUS Munich is no longer valid.
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'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-10 18:46 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-10 22:22 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-11 17:31 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-11 18:02 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-12 18:45 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-13 11:59 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-13 18:00 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-13 18:20 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Olle <olavi.sakari@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 00:25 -0700
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Olle <olavi.sakari@gmail.com> - 2013-03-19 00:31 -0700
Re: 'eofill'ing areas luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-20 13:28 -0700
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Michael Unger <spam.to.unger@spamgourmet.com> - 2013-03-21 17:30 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2013-03-21 17:52 +0100
Re: 'eofill'ing areas luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2013-03-10 18:48 -0700
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