not making use of the &quot;mask&quot; property of draw masks (i.e., you don't care if you can see through it), then you should just specify a lighter color and let the kernel do the dithering. This is important especially because drawing masks in PostScript takes much longer than drawing a bitmap of the same size.</P>
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