From: Christoph B. <us...@be...> - 2011-10-23 10:57:58
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On 22.10.2011 20:47 sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote: > > Currently the PostScript and PDF terminals write a prologue record > /Title (<filename>) > but there have been many complaints from people who don't like the > way that some external tools handle this. They suffer from a problem > equivalent to the one you originally complained about, that the > title of the first [last?] plot is displayed as if it were the title > of the whole document the plot is embedded in. If you look on the > Feature Request and Bug trackers, you'll find requests to change > this and not write a Title record at all. I think, there had also been people complaining about the automatic insertion of the author's login name in postscript files. So this <title> we are talking about, has a different purpose than the one of "set title", the filename is not appropriate, and any terminal option does not fit the usual scripting workflow. A possiblity would then be, like Peter suggested, to add an option 'title' (and maybe also other file properties like 'author' and 'desc') to "set output", or even a single 'set ...' option which handles different file meta data and to have the current behavior as fallback if the new options are not used. Christoph |