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Subject: Re: Possible bug in Mac Distiller's charpath?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:28:54 -0800 (PST)
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On Feb 16, 6:17 pm, jdaw1 <jdawise...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please consider the following code, also available atwww.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20080216_charpath.ps
> %!
>
> % Julian D. A. Wiseman, 16th February 2008,www.jdawiseman.com
>
> /FontSize 100 def
> /Times-Roman FontSize selectfont
> 0 setgray  0.24 setlinewidth  1 setlinecap  1 setlinejoin  [] 0
> setdash
>
> 72 72 FontSize 6 mul add moveto
> (0) true charpath
> (2) true charpath
> stroke
>
> 72 72 FontSize 4.5 mul add moveto
> FontSize 2 div FontSize rlineto  FontSize 2 div FontSize neg rlineto
> stroke
>
> 72 72 FontSize 3 mul add moveto
> (0) true charpath
> FontSize 2 div FontSize rlineto  FontSize 2 div FontSize neg rlineto
> (2) true charpath
> stroke
>
> showpage
>
> GhostScript correctly outputswww.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20080216_charpath_Ghostscript.pdf
>
> But Mac Distiller (Professional, 8.1.0, 10/23/06) outputswww.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20080216_charpath_MacDistiller.pdf
> which is missing the lines drawn by the two linetos (though not the
> positioning affect). Mac Preview is very similar to the Distiller:www.jdawiseman.com/papers/bugs/20080216_charpath_Preview.pdf
>
> -- Please, am I doing something wrong?
> -- Please, is there a workaround?
> -- How can I nag Adobe to fix it? (The bug-submission page on Adobe
> doesn't work!)

Try a string false charpath. False is for stroking and true
is for filling or clipping.

Ed