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From: craig@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Craig Jarchow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: clip limitcheck
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.182427.16415@morrow.stanford.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 91 18:24:27 GMT
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Netters:

I am running into an earlier than expected limitcheck error when using the
'clip' operator. I am creating a path using initclip, moveto, multiple
linetos, and closepath. If the path has between 600 and 700 segments, clip
produces a limitcheck error on our laserwriter.  I was expecting a limitcheck
error somewhere closer to 1500 path segments, as is suggested in the red
book.

What is going on with 'clip' that produces this 'premature' limitcheck?
I am not using any curved path segments, so it seems that path flattening
shouldn't be a factor. Is this problem dependent on device resolution??

Any wisdom would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Craig.