Re: Clipping path?

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:05:30 -0500 (CDT)
> Bob Friesenhahn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Bob> It seems that the clipping path can be in the format specified by
> Bob> either the Postscript v3 specification or the SVG specification.
> Bob> It also seems that the clipping path is most often obtained from
> Bob> the '8BIM' profile which is often embedded in JPEG or TIFF files,
> Bob> but may also be embedded in an SVG file.
>
> So, if I understand you correctly, this information must already be in
> the main input file?

Yes, it seems like it.  From an API level it is of course possible to
specify a clipping path, which is just a long string.  The clipping 
patch string is used (by drawing) to produce the same sort of 
clip-mask image as supported by -clip.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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