toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (05/09/90)
Why doesn't the example of character outlines shown on page 98 of the PostScript cookbook work on NeWS 1.0 on a Sun 4? (It works on my Apple Laserwriter!!) A simplified example is: /Helvetica-Bold findfont 30 scalefont setfont erasepage 150 400 translate .5 setlinewidth 0 0 moveto (Outline an alphabet:) true charpath 0 -100 moveto (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz!) true charpath gsave 1 setgray fill grestore stroke showpage Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21701-1013 toms@ncifcrf.gov
toms@ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) (05/09/90)
In article <1650@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> toms@fcs260c2.UUCP (Tom Schneider) writes: >Why doesn't the example of character outlines shown on page 98 of the >PostScript cookbook work on NeWS 1.0 on a Sun 4? (It works on my correction: 1.1 How about 2.0 and X/NeWS? Is it really true that the merge is horribly slow? My systems person won't touch it. (Solid X types... is Sun ever going to get out of the hole they dug for themselves?) Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21701-1013 toms@ncifcrf.gov