Re: pslatex.trm: useless \colorgray into tex file

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:59 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >>There seems to be a bug: EPSLATEX_set_color() produces many many 
> >>\colorgray{} commands into output .tex file, which are completely useless, 
> >>because color for filled rectangles is set directly in .eps file.
> 
> Note my email from a couple days ago.  
> Perhaps begin by looking at this strange defined-out line of code: 

Wrong driver. We're talking about the *.tex output from pslatex.trm
 
> #if 0
>     /*  In order to make 'PS_linewidth' work properly, I need to comment
>      *  this line out.  Especially in combination with the line width
>      *  extension of the `set arrow` command this is necessary.
>      *  Can we live with that drawback?  (JFi)
>      */
>     if (PS_linetype_last == linetype) return;
> #endif

But I agree that this comment is probably obsolete.
I tested re-enabling this test quite a while back, and found no problems.
But also it didn't produce any substantial saving in the output file size,
so I left it alone.  We can look at it again later.
 
> Also, could this bug have something to do with bug report: 
> [ 1512210 ] buffer overflow using pgnuplot

Nope.

> crashes if gnuplotfile.gnuplot
> contains a lot of postscript plots from datafiles

Again - not the same driver.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742