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From: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Query re `arc'
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Date: 23 May 91 03:58:52 GMT
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Reply-To: flar@bendenweyr.Eng.Sun.COM (Jim Graham)
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ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
|> The PostScript specification trivia question for today:
|> 
|> If you ask a PostScript engine to draw a zero-degree arc and there is
|> no current point, does the arc operator just do a moveto, or does it
|> do a moveto and then draw a zero-length line?  It makes a difference,
|> because if you've selected non-round caps and round joins, 'stroke'
|> will give no output if arc does the former, whereas the latter will
|> draw a dot.

According to the Laserwriters, "newpath 50 50 20 0 0 arc" generates
a single path element, "70 50 moveto".

					...jim