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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: question about stringwidth
Message-ID: <192@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 89 17:24:00 GMT
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Does the stringwidth operator require a current point?  The red book is
unclear.  It says "calculates the change in the current point that would
occur if ...", implying that there should be a current point.  However,
nocurrentpoint is not listed as a possible error.

A program I grabbed off usenet works on PostScript interpreter A, but
gives a nocurrentpoint error on interpreter B, which I tracked down
to stringwidth.

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