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From: greid@adobe.com (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: EPSF pics leaving tails...
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Date: 7 Mar 89 19:12:43 GMT
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In article <85686@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>In article <2510@masada.cs.swarthmore.edu> annie@cs.swarthmore.edu (Annie Fetter) writes:
> 
><All the drawings are of various polyhedra.  They are done to perfection in 
><Cricket Draw (all the lines connect where they should, and are perfect when
><printed in Cricket Draw form).  However, when transferred to RSG, many of them
><develop tails - small lines extending from some of the vertices.  I have tried
><resaving in EPSF and other similar quick-fixes, but nothing has worked.
> 
><Anyone got any ideas?  Anyone else have similar problems?
> 
>That's interesting. My boss complained about a similar thing that happened
>in my drawings. Once the Canvas drawing was imported into Word and printed,
>it looked like I had plunked an arrowhead on a line and done a sloppy job
>so that the line stuck out past the arrowhead.

My guess is that the "miter limit" in the graphics state is somehow not
being preserved.  The miter limit controls how far the point should be
drawn past a corner when two line segments meet at a severe angle.  See
the PostScript Language Reference Manual for more details.

Try editing the EPS file by hand and looking for "setmiterlimit".  If
it's not there, try adding something like "5 setmiterlimit" or so.

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Glenn Reid
Adobe Systems
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