Re: postscript monochrome and specified color

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

On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:18 am, Bastian Maerkisch wrote:
> 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.

Huh?  What effort?
There's a flag at the top of the PotScript output file:
  /Color true def
Just toggle the flag; no need to run your script again.
So I really don't care that much one way or the other how
the PostScript driver acts by default, because it's so easy
to change your mind later.

But the PDF output is not so easily edited.  Therefore it
is of more importance that the initial output be sensible.
If you guys are arguing that for consistency with PostScript,
"set term pdf mono" should map pm3d colors onto a gray scale,
I can see that point of view.  But up till now that has never
been coded into the pdf driver.  So it would not be a 
simple matter of changing the default; someone would have to
add new code.


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