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From: mh@wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Finding the bounding shape of an object
Message-ID: <23505@wlbr.EATON.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 88 18:40:33 GMT
References: <1658@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Reply-To: mh@wlbr.eaton.com.UUCP (Mike Hoegeman)
Organization: Eaton IMSD, Westlake Village, CA
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In article <1658@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> orr%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nss.ucl.ac.uk (Fraser Orr) writes:
>Given an arbitrary path, I would like to be able to get a path
>that discribes the outside shape of this. Has anybody done this
>or have you any suggestions as to how to do this?
>
>Any help would be most appreciated,
>

depending on what you want to do 'strokepath' may be your ticket.
check it out in the Red Book. 

-mike