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Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage?

From Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage?
Date 2015-04-28 10:43 +0100
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ken <ken@spamcop.net> writes:
(snip)
> Higher resolution (and printers do keep increasing resolution, albeit 
> slowly) means more time taken to do scan conversion. If you add stroke 
> adjustment, that takes still more time, and for less and less benefit as 
> the resolution increases.
(snip)

That's interesting, I hadn't realized.

> Unless you are drawing with something like 0 setlinewidth 
> the differing stroke widths will be hard to see.
(snip)

I've usually used 0 setlinewidth to mark the lines I am to cut along
after printing. (-:

-- Mark

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setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-04-27 03:25 -0700
  Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2015-04-27 14:29 +0100
    Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-04-27 08:56 -0700
      Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-04-27 14:59 -0400
        Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-04-27 13:29 -0700
          Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-04-27 22:43 -0400
      Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2015-04-28 07:54 +0100
        Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-04-28 02:01 -0700
          Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2015-04-28 11:27 +0100
            Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-04-28 04:02 -0700
        Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-04-28 10:43 +0100
  Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-05-01 15:16 -0700
    Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2015-05-02 09:13 +0100
      Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage? jdaw1 <jdawiseman@gmail.com> - 2015-05-02 03:29 -0700

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