Re: Emf terminal scales point size with canvas size

[Benjamin L. <lin...@gm...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Monday 31 August 2009 11:45:39 Benjamin Lindner wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> In a current 4.3.0 build the emf terminal scales the point size with the 
>> terminal size.
>> This is contrary to what other terminals e.g. png or ps do.
> 
> I think it's more complicated than that.
> Various terminals do various things.  
> Some have a fixed point size (particularly the old plotter drivers where
> the points are drawn via a hardware function).
> Some scale by terminal size.  
> Some (as I recall) scale by font size.
> 
> It seems a reasonable goal to have all the drivers do the same thing,
> but before making any changed I'd like first to see a list of which terminals
> do what right now and how many of them can be easily modified to match
> a common convention for the behaviour.
> 

Well to start the list, I can provide:

term  |  scale ps with term size?  |  scale ps with font size?
--------------------------------------------------------------
  emf           yes                        no
  png           no                         no
  gif           no                         no
jpeg           no                         no
   ps           no                         no
  eps           no                         no


benjamin