Sometimes, clip after charpath is ineffective in Adobe Distiller 20.0, 20.005.30635. PostScript files cannot be attached, so code follows. Obviously, if Adobe’s software does embarrassing line wrapping, unwrap.

%!PS

<< /PageSize [560 365] >> setpagedevice

% DeFontPath has two uses.
% Bug in Adobe Distiller 8.1.3 (23/10/2006). In attempting to treat paths derived from text as copyable text, it fails to cope with paths made partly thereby and partly from a upath.
% Bug in Adobe Distiller 20.0, 20.005.30635, PostScript software version 3018.101, in which sometimes, a clip of a text-derived charpath had no effect.
% https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/19193479-distiller-charpath-clip-stroke-does-not-honou
% https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.postscript/c/ewwOV_qN4JQ
/DeFontPath
{
[ {/moveto cvx} {/lineto cvx} {/curveto cvx} {/closepath cvx} pathforall ] newpath cvx exec
% Fuller version available from https://github.com/jdaw1/placemat/blob/main/PostScript/placemat.ps
} bind def % /DeFontPath

/GothamNarrow-Bold 480 selectfont
1 setlinejoin 1 setlinecap [] 0 setdash

% Page 1: clip ignored. Black overwrites red. And black shown extra-wide.
12 12 moveto
(78) true charpath
gsave 1 0 0 setrgbcolor 4 setlinewidth stroke grestore
0 setgray 8 setlinewidth clipsave clip stroke cliprestore
showpage

% Page 2: clip heeded (hurray!). Black not present outside, so red visible.
12 12 moveto
(78) true charpath DeFontPath % Path converted from text to non-text path.
gsave 1 0 0 setrgbcolor 2 setlinewidth stroke grestore
0 setgray 4 setlinewidth clipsave clip stroke cliprestore
showpage

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