Re: postscript monochrome and specified color

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> 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.

It is imported by people using pdf(la)tex -- useful mainly when writing 
reports with a lot of images (the pdf files is considerably small than latex 
-> dvips -> postscript file).


> 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.

> Well, probably little.  But I think it _should_ come out as gray in 
> monochrome mode.
> I too would prefer the 'monochrome' terminal property to cause the plot to 
> come out in shades of gray only. It saves some effort to duplicate scripts 
> when you want colored and monochrome versions of a plot. In any case 
> consistency across terminals would be a good thing ;-)

I agree; it would be helpful for 4.2.

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