Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

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

On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, pl...@pi... wrote:

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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.

Not at all. People save plots as PDF because they want them to be scalable 
without horrid pixelation, and to exploit the full resolution of the final 
output device (e.g. a 2400 dpi printer). For this purpose you want a 
vector format -- PDF, EPS or SVG -- not a bitmap.

Allin Cottrell