PS/PDF (was cairo-based PDF terminal)

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> 2) If it is worth it for PostScript, does that mean it is also
>   worth doing for pdf?

Talking about PS/PDF compatibility issues, it seems to me that the 
PDF term options should be, so far as is reasonably practical, 
compatible with the PS options.  I've noticed one departure.  If 
you choose the "monochrome" option to PS, you get lines 
distinguished by dash patterns.  If you select the mono option to 
PDF, you get a bunch of identical lines, unless you specifically 
select the "dashed" option.  The latter result seems to me a case 
of "broken by design".

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC