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Mike: I'm almost postive that PDraw does the following with type fills (though I could be way to left feild on this one): If a character is made up 2 paths (let's say the letter "O", with and inside path and an outside one), then I believe PDraw simply draws both paths, fills them and then XOR's them. This is what it looks like it doing with compound objects, and characters ARE brought in as compound objects. This could be why it falls on it's face with certain fonts (that is, ones that have their paths crossing each other). This, as you know, is NOT how PostScript does it. But the way PostScript does it is far more processor intensive, I believe, than simply saying "fill this, fill this and slap 'em together!". Yet another short-cut causing potential problems. Where will it all end? 🙁 Gary – Mirror Image Prod. (416) 495-7469, via WHAP!