Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

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

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> 
> One thing to be careful of is the fact that saving to PDF (which is 
> certainly welcome in my opinion because the first word of PDF means 
> "portable") in the Qt terminal isn't using the PDF terminal.  There
> are no colors in the PDF output via Qt, whereas the PDF terminal
> creates a PDF output with colors.  Do we want as setup in which the
> interactive terminals use the PDF terminal, or a setup in which the
> interactive terminals use their own custom PDF output?

I thought one could use the native APIs of the 
rendering library to handle the transformation
to the desired graphics format (in the spirit
of pngcairo and pdfcairo - both rendered, similarly,
using the same lib). I think Qt can do that, too.

Best,

		Ph.