Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

[<pl...@pi...>]

On 10/24/14 17:45, Allin Cottrell wrote:
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> On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, pl...@pi... wrote:
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>> I don't see any sense in saving  a graphic as PDF. Maybe someone could
>> say why people do this. AFAIK it justs adds a wrapper around the image
>> and bloats it.
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> Not at all. People save plots as PDF because they want them to be
> scalable without horrid pixelation, and to exploit the full resolution
> of the final output device (e.g. a 2400 dpi printer). For this purpose
> you want a vector format -- PDF, EPS or SVG -- not a bitmap.
>
> Allin Cottrell
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Thanks,  that is the point of pdf terminal. I make quite a bit of use of 
SVG myself.  I do not think this makes sense for clipboard copy of 
interactive terminals.which is necessarily a bitmap.

Peter.