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From: charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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Subject: Re: help with charpath
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Date: 14 Jan 89 21:08:44 GMT
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In article <8901131858.AA05919@lite.sunecd.com> byennaco@lite.UUCP 
(Robert Yennaco) writes:
 
>The path construction operator, `charpath', doesn't seem to work.  Instead 
>of getting character outlines, I get the string's bounding box.
>Anybody shed some light on this?

It works.  Try

    /Helvetica findfont 100 scalefont setfont
    newpath
    100 300 moveto
    (Woof) false charpath flattenpath
    5 setlinewidth
    1 setlinejoin stroke
    showpage