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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: How to paint a non-rectangular image?
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Date: 10 Feb 90 01:46:07 GMT
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In article <4829@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, jef@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> I could do it by lasooing the border of the 1-bit mask and converting
> it into a clipping list, but that seems extremely grody.  Does anyone
> see a better way?

What I would do is to do two imagemask commands.  The first paints the
mask bitmap with white, and the second paints the image bitmap in black
(or whatever).

This gets the effect I think you want :-).

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

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