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| From | rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.postscript |
| Subject | Re: Bad clipping |
| Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:22:02 +0000 (UTC) |
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In article <fb1a5bd6-1b67-476e-a384-210efe5a165d@googlegroups.com>, jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> wrote: >Mac Preview badly renders some clipping. Advice wanted. > >Do something resembling >... clip newpath ... moveto ... lineto gsave 0 setgray 4 setlinewidth >stroke grestore 1 setgray 2 setlinewidth stroke > >In Mac Preview, at some zooms some of the 0 setgray ... stroke that >was overwritten by the 1 setgray stroke then bleeds through the clip. >Sigh. But in Adobe Pro, at all zooms it looks perfect. > >If any printers -- now or in the future -- use the same rasterisation >technology as does Mac Preview, it will be wrong on those printers. Mac Preview is just a previewer and seems to have implemented a limited subset of PostScript. I recall having issues with it not handling the Separation colorspace. I wouldn't be concerned that some printer manufacturer would use the same RIP and be able to market it as a PostScript capable printer. -- -- Rod -- rodd(at)polylogics(dot)com
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Bad clipping jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2014-10-15 13:01 -0700 Re: Bad clipping rodd@panix.com (Rod Dorman) - 2014-10-16 19:22 +0000
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