Re: fill pattern

[Dhiman B. <dh...@ca...>]

Hi Dan,
      Thanks for all help. I solved the problem other day by using 
.png format as Ethan suggested.
You can have a look at http://www.caida.org/~dhiman/c3.png

     But then I had to use some unknown font as I could not use fonts
that enhanced postscript was using. Now if I use rgbcolor, I 
can use enhanced postscript. But it would be great if gnuplot has 
the same set of patterns as xfig has.... 
	
     I am not sure why 4th column from right was shorter, either 
something was getting trimmed off from the top or I was missing something 
in program or datafile. But now it seems ok.

Thanks,
Dhiman

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:45:46PM -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> >On Monday 28 August 2006 01:25 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >
> >>Well, colors seems to be a good alternative.  Is there some way to
> >>use defined rgb colors with the fill to expand the allowable number?
> >
> >
> >That works now, so far as I know.
> >Did you have a particular example where is doesn't?
> 
> No.  I wasn't sure.  Perhaps that is the solution for Dhiman, who said the 
> first attempt was with colors but that also repeated.  (The example Dhiman 
> gave had three instances of red.)
> 
> 
> >The thing is, pattern-fill is mostly used in cases where you
> >_can't_ use colors,  e.g. black+white figures for publication.
> 
> That's true, but I don't think that was a limitation for Dhiman, otherwise 
> color wouldn't have been attempted in the first place.  It seems to me that 
> pattern is useful, but just for a small number of classes.
> 
> Maybe an histogram example with "rgbcolor" would be a nice addition to 
> 'histograms2.dem'.  Rather than the basic colors, choose some far out 
> colors that would catch the viewer's attention, i.e., "How did they get 
> those colors?" kind of thing.  In the attached patch I attempted the 
> gaudiest colors I could.
> 
> Does this help Dhiman?
> 
> Dan
> 
> PS:  Any ideas as to why that fourth from right column in Dhiman's example 
> is shorter than the others?  Dhiman, you might be able to make the best 
> guess.
> 
> PPS:  I notice some slight overlap and blending of colors in the 
> histogram2.dem examples.  (I didn't look beyond X11.)