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Re: Tracking the currentdocument

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From: Glenn Reid
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 18:47
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Chris Lloyd writes

> Get rid of this erase, it's pointless since you do a composite with COPY
> right after it which just blasts over the fill.
> >    PSsetgray(NX_WHITE);
> >    NXRectFill(&rects[0]);
> 
> >    [image composite:NX_COPY
> >              fromRect:&rects[0]
> >              toPoint:&rects[0].origin];

That's not quite good advice. If there is alpha in the image being
composited, you'll get weird results on a color system if you don't
fill with white first (you get black wherever there was alpha).

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