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Article #9162What gsave saves
From: James Ashton
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 01:24
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 01:24
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In article <18088@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes: >On a related topic, does anyone know EXACTLY what is preserved by a gsave. >grestore pair. The books say "the current graphics state" and give some >general things, but so far, I have never seen a comprehensive list of >EVERYTHING that gets saved. This would be imensely helpful... According the (old) manual that I have, "gsave saves only the current Graphics State, pushing a copy of it onto the Graphics State stack". It lists the complete set of Graphics State parameters as: CTM Current Transformation matrix color cp Current Position path the current path clip the current clipping path font the current font dictionary line width line cap line join screen a collection of PostScript objects that define the current halftone screen pattern for grey and colour transfer an executable procedure that maps user grey levels into device grey levels flatness miter-limit dash device an internal data structure that describes the current output device James Ashton
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!cluster!jaa From: jaa@cs.su.oz (James Ashton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: What gsave saves Message-ID: <742@cluster.cs.su.oz> Date: 5 Mar 90 01:24:04 GMT References: <LOKI.90Mar1154035@marvin.moncam.uucp> <18088@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@cluster.cs.su.oz Reply-To: jaa@cluster.cs.su.oz (James Ashton) Distribution: comp Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia Lines: 30