Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

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> 
> I don't see any sense in saving  a graphic as PDF. Maybe someone
> could say why people do this. AFAIK it justs adds a wrapper around
> the image and bloats it.
> 
> I can't think what situations would be able to display a PDF that
> cannot display a png directly.
> 

Because PDF is a vector format, in the same
way that Postscript is! Whenever there is a
need to scale a graph, you need a vector format.

Postscript is (increasingly) becoming a niche 
format, and PDF is taking its place as print-quality
vector format.