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From: phillips@tegra.COM (Steve Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Real-world limits on path sizes
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Date: 3 Aug 90 16:31:06 GMT
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In article <24004@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> bb@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
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>I have a question on effective path lengths.  I am using the following
>code, designed to accumulate the width of a multi-font string...

[ description of limitcheck error on flattenpath deleted... ]

You probably already know this, but I'll mention it anyway... :^)
You can use the "setflat" operator to increase the number of
characters you can do a flattenpath on.  Setflat controls the
closeness of the approximation when you convert each bezier to
line segments, so by increasing the allowable error in the
approximation you can decrease the number of line segments
in the path.

The limitcheck error is caused because you're exceeding the
maximum number of path segments per path.  I don't know what
the limitation is for your printer, but on old LaserWriters
I think it was 1500.

- Steve

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Steve Phillips                                         Tegra-Varityper, Inc.
tegra!phillips@uunet.com                               Billerica, MA
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