<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div>Dear Folks,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I want to report some issues about "oefill" (the complement of "eofill").</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><ul><li>`oefill` cannot produce transparent region while `eofill` can,</li><li>`oefill` produces unwanted white space,</li><li>`oeclip` cannot be used as a clipping path because `oeclip` does not exist.</li></ul><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Here is the minimal working example to
 show </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\documentclass[pstricks,border=12pt]{standalone}</div></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\def\common{%</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>\pscircle(2,2){2}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">   </span>\moveto(3.75,2.25)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>\pscircle(2.75,2.25){1}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>\moveto(1.25,2.5)</div><div style="background-color:
 transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>\pscircle(0.75,2.5){0.5}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">    </span>\moveto(2,1)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>\pscircle(1.5,1){0.5}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">       </span>\ignorespaces</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\begin{document}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">% eofill works</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](4,4)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span>\pscustom[fillstyle=eofill,fillcolor=red]{\common}</div><div style="background-color:
 transparent;">\end{pspicture}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">% eoclip works</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](4,4)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>\psclip{\pscustom{\code{/clip /eoclip load def}\common}}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">            </span>\psframe*[linecolor=blue](4,4)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>\endpsclip</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\end{pspicture}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">% oefill works but it cannot produce transparent region</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">% it also produces unwanted whitespaces (the graphics objects get displaced to the right)</div><div style="background-color:
 transparent;">\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](4,4)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">  </span>\pscustom[fillstyle=oefill,fillcolor=red]{\common}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\end{pspicture}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">% oeclip does not work because oeclip does not exist</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">%\begin{pspicture}[showgrid](4,4)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">      </span>%\psclip{\pscustom{\code{/clip /oeclip load def}\common}}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">           </span>%\psframe*[linecolor=blue](4,4)</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">     </span>%\endpsclip</div><div style="background-color: transparent;">%\end{pspicture}</div><div
 style="background-color: transparent;"><span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\end{document}</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Code Mocker</div><div><br></div><div>http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356<br></div></div></body></html>