Re: [Plplot-devel] Background colour problem with PS driver

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

"Alan W. Irwin" wrote:
> 
> On 2004-02-12 15:24+0100 Arjen Markus wrote:
> 
> > Arjen Markus wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am having a serious problem with the PSC driver:
> > > - When my program prints to a colour-Postscript file, the PS driver
> > >   decides to make the background black, because colour 0 is not white.
> > >   (this is done in plD_bop_ps())
> > > - However, I can not set colour 0 to white, because the colours are
> > >   reset in plinit() (to initialise the driver).
> > >
> > > What is the remedy? Fill a white rectangle the size of the whole page?
> > >
> >
> > No, that is not a remedy - wrong sizes, the rectangle does not fill the
> > page.
> >
> > Nor is calling plbop() after plinit() and the colours have been set
> > right
> > (as the page status is still AT_BOP then).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Check the documentation in http://plplot.org/docbook-manual.  Chaper 3
> there has a section on setting colour which gives you all the background
> options (which, as documented, must be done before plinit).
> 

The workaround I sketched before is indeed working: the background is
now nicely white.

This leaves me with a few other issues, but those are for next week.

Oh, by the way, I am making progress with x14f.f - but again that
will be for next week - I have the source code, now I need to check
that it really works.

Regards,

Arjen