Re: Why do we even need a "mono" option?

[Jonathan T. <jt...@ae...>]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Even MSword and PowerPoint offer the option to toggle 
> color/grayscale for individual imported images.
> 
> So why is it necessary to have two output modes from gnuplot?
> In other words, why do we even have a "mono" option in
> the first place?

I would very much want to keep the option of monochrome postscript.
I use this for figures in latex documents which I know will be printed
in monochrome.  In this case having gnuplot produce monochrome ps
gives more control over just what will print than having gnuplot
produce a color ps which some software at the publisher will then
map to monochrome using some algorithm which I have no control over.

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