Distiller: charpath … clip … stroke does not honour clip
Distiller XI Pro 11.0.20 (28/03/2017) does not honour the ‘clip’ in the following:
%!PS
1 setlinejoin 1 setlinecap [] 0 setdash newpath
gsave
/TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT 96 selectfont 50 500 moveto (F70) true
charpath
clip % leaving the F70 outline as the current path
24 -4 1.99
{
dup 2 sub exch
setlinewidth 1 setgray gsave stroke grestore
setlinewidth 0 setgray gsave stroke grestore
} for
grestore
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Also documented at
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.postscript/ewwOV_qN4JQ
(yes, a whole ago — but still broken).
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Thanks for bringing this issue to our notice. we have logged bug in our database for the same and will be prioritized based on other work items.
Thanks,
Mridula
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Julian D. A. Wiseman commented
Typo: “a whole ago” → “a while ago”.
Meaning that this bug was noticed by me 8⅓ years ago.