X-NeWS Path flattening?

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From: Julian Lawson
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 11:01

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I am writing a few PostScript routines to create textures and other graphic
effects. Amongst others, I've written a procedure which draws a random crack
and I wanted to get it to draw cracks in the corners of the current clipping
path to create a "cracked stone" effect with text. However, when I use pathforall
the path seems to be flattened to loads of points so that it attempts do draw
a crack at just about every point along the outline. This happens with straight
lines (!) as well as curves.
Does anyone know anything about X-NeWS? Does it automatically flatten paths to
short segments with clipping paths? (setflat makes no difference btw)

Thanks for the help, anybody.

Julian

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Subject: X-NeWS Path flattening?
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Date: 8 Apr 92 11:01:08 GMT
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