Re: Argh: Why are arrows clipped to the graph?

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2005 05:11 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>I don't know if it is even that complicated.  Certainly one can do that.
>> But I'm constantly making the mistake of creating a plot half off
>>screen in ghostview, then I expand out to some other page size beside
>>"encapsulated" and there is the rest of the plot.
> 
> 
> And right there you have the reason why the PostScript driver is
> different from all the others - it let's you draw "off the screen".
> If you come to rely on that, you will eventually find that some
> other driver will be extremely unhappy that you are trying to 
> draw outside the pre-allocated space.

I don't know what we are disagreeing on here.  :-)


>> For me, it would be much more interesting to enable gnuplot to
>>read in common picture files as jpg or png.
>>
>>Noted.  (And list members should note.)  The capability to do so exists
>>as part of the code.  But there is debate on whether to allow this.
> 
> 
> Really?  You have code that reads in a jpeg file?

Sorry.  No.  Right after I sent the email I thought I hadn't worded that too well... and I was right.  What I meant was that we've organized the code so that it wouldn't be difficult for someone to add support for different image types.  I recall debate about whether we should get to the point of supporting the myriad different image file formats.  (And that was never my original intent.  The original intent was for computer programs to exchange data through a pipe.)

Dan