Re: postscript monochrome and specified color

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

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>>Not only is the PDF file not monochrome, in addition to the line being red, the borders are red.
> 
> The "monochrome" option to pdf seems never to have been
> implemented fully. It doesn't actually *do* anything.
> It just *doesn't* change the linetype.

It should do something.  Regular color mode would be better than the colored borders.


>  So in mono mode, whatever linetype
> you have is stuck forever.  At the least, setting "mono" should also
> select "dashed" so you can tell the lines apart.

Right.


> So this one may not be fixable for 4.2, although I suppose I can at
> least patch it to set the line color back to black.
> 
> Obviously no one is using PDF in mono mode, or this would have
> been noticed a long time ago.

Not 4.2 critical, and what you said is probably true.  PDF is a "standalone" sort of output in the fact that it isn't going to be imported into any other document.  If one outputs in color, fine, because the PDF viewer can deal with that.

But an EPS file, or TIFF file, might be something imported into another document or sent to a journal or proceedings where color plots are not allowed.

Dan