Re: smooth shading & terminal specialities

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

Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 
>>, i.e., 
>>    /* for pm3dCompress.awk */
>>    if (gppsfile)
>>	fputs("%pm3d_map_begin\n", gppsfile);
> 
> 
> Yeah, but that is just an added nicety.

:-)

>  The gppsfile
> mechanism is necessary in any case.
> 
> Getting back to the case at hand, the reason post.trm has a
> private routine for this is that we encode the color palette
> mapping equations into PostScript and include it in the output file.
> So the requisite colors can be generated at print time, taking
> into consideration the capabilities of the printer, without the
> core routines having to know anything about the eventual 
> printer properties.  

I see that now.

Dan