[metapost] some question about pens

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi,

Stephan Hennig wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps it is worth filing a bug report to the gs people. Xpdf is also
>> a little bit off, but that is nothing compared to the massive gs
>> deviation.
> 
> I wouldn't want to during the next four weeks, so, I wouldn't mind if
> anybody else did that sooner.

I am hesitant to file a bug report because I already have so much
other stuff to do, but attached is a handwritten EPS that shows
the bug. It even gives some insight into the cause: it seems that
ghostscript applies the pen *after* digitizing the path.

You can increase|decrease the quality of the view by altering the
'setflat' value. The "chunkyness" of path itself is on purpose,
but the non-horizontal endings and the serrated top edges that
sometimes appears are both wrong.

For those of you without ghostscript, I have also attached a
screenshot (gv runs ghostscript 8.15.3, so the bug is not as new
as all that).

Best wishes,
Taco
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