Re: Doc : "ai driver deprecated"

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

On Friday 28 July 2006 08:41 pm, Timoth=C3=A9e Lecomte wrote:
"Adobe Illustrator (ai) driver deprecated".
>=20
> What does it mean in practise ?
> Shouldn't this message rather be in "help ai" instead of the news section=
 ?

We don't normally have entries for non-existent terminals in the help secti=
on.
I think NEWS or "Changes since 4.0" are the right place for such a warning.

> I propose to write this, taken from Harald Harders on this list=20
> (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.gnuplot.devel/1952/match=3D=
adobe)=20
> :
>=20
> "Please note that this terminal is outdated and, as PostScript is=20
> understood by *Adobe* Illustrator, the `post` should be used instead."

That should be "set term post level1 ...."

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