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Sorry if this has been spotted before.  I'm running Adobe PostScript
V42.2 on an Apple LaserWriter, and I've just done a simple test;

/Courier findfont
100 scalefont
setfont
100 100 moveto
(a) false charpath
currentpoint = =
300 300 lineto
stroke showpage

Now the %output is

100.0
160.0

but the printed output (sorry, can't get it into this buffer...)
indicates that the last point was in fact at the top lefthand point of
the `a' (presumably the last point in the character data).  I've never
read of this discrepancy as a feature, but I noticed that Adobe's
implementation of their `boldening' does a charpath (each character
individually) followed by an explicit `currentpoint moveto', so it
looks like they're aware of it.  You don't notice it if you just
charpath a string and then stroke it.  You also don't notice it if you
do something like

(a) false charpath
(b) false charpath
(c) false charpath
stroke
showpage

so presumably Adobe's charpath has an implicit `currentpoint moveto'
at the beginning of it.

If it hasn't been commented on before, has anyone else noticed it?  Is
it the version I'm running?  (Note that `fixing' it so that it *does*
do the moveto would not break Adobe's boldening code, for instance,
since their explicit moveto would just overwrite the one there, but
of course making the currentpoint the last point in the character
data would have amusing consequences, notably to have the characters
climbing off the page...)
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