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From: deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ben Haller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: What is a good pathforall substitute??
Keywords: pathforall charpath
Message-ID: <1991May4.193113.24989@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 19:31:13 GMT
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In article <1991May1.212603.7751@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mike Hovan) writes:
>
>	I am interested in placing text on a path created by a
>charpath call.  Unfortunately the LRM says that pathforall operator 
>is not allowed to operate on paths created with charpath.  What is
>a good way to accomplish this?
>
>	Basically, I am trying to display text created with a small font
>along the outline of text created with a much larger font.

  As far as I know you can't, to answer the question.  On to more
interesting points: as far as I can tell, this means that a non-PostScript
printer used with ATM on a Macintosh is actually *more* powerful than a PS
printer in some respects (according to Adobe, ATM 2.0 includes a
programming interface to the ATM driver that allows a program to get the
path of a character - essentially the "pathforall" information that
PostScript is unable to provide).
  Am I wrong?

-Ben Haller (deadman@garnet.berkeley.edu)
 "Clap your hands
  And listen for an echo..." - The Horseflies