Re: Stroke Adjust

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From: Aandi Inston
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00

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"one D. say 'tan'." <wandy> wrote:

>Hi, I have some questions about the PostScript rendering
>option "stroke adjust":

>1) why isn't stroke adjust always set to true? seems like
>a good idea to me to have uniform line thickness.

The manual says that it isn't the default because it could change the
behaviour of existing (level 1) printout, getting differerent results.
On the other hand, it isn't necessarily not the default.

>2) what would happen if my output always sets stroke adjust
>to true? Is it a bad idea? (I'm using PostScript Level 2)

Sounds a good thing. If you're embedding EPS files, I think there are
special rules about switching it off. If I remember rightly.

>Thank you very much.

>Wandy Sae-Tan

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