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From: toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: How to do charpath?
Summary: can't get it to work
Keywords: PostScript functions, charpath
Message-ID: <1650@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Date: 9 May 90 02:17:59 GMT
Reply-To: toms@fcs260c2.UUCP (Tom Schneider)
Organization: National Cancer Institute, Frederick
Lines: 21

Why doesn't the example of character outlines shown on page 98 of the
PostScript cookbook work on NeWS 1.0 on a Sun 4?  (It works on my
Apple Laserwriter!!)

A simplified example is:

/Helvetica-Bold findfont 30 scalefont setfont erasepage
150 400 translate .5 setlinewidth
0 0 moveto
(Outline an alphabet:) true charpath
0 -100 moveto
(abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!) true charpath
gsave 1 setgray fill grestore
stroke
showpage

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21701-1013
  toms@ncifcrf.gov