[comp.lang.postscript] Slow PostScript Clipping

allan@alice.UUCP (Allan R. Wilks) (04/27/89)

The following PostScript program:

%!
[2] 0 setdash
0 0 moveto 1e6 1e6 lineto
stroke showpage

takes a LONG time to print (on an Apple LaserWriter Plus).
This is presumably because each dash of the dashed line is
individually clipped to the clipping region.  It's certainly
nice to be able to depend on the printer for clipping -- is
there any way to get around this problem?