Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

On 10/24/2014 06:20 PM, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
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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?
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> 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.

If it is easy.  The alternative would--after getting the file name from 
the dialog box--simply do something like:

set term push
set term pdf
set output 'file_name_from_gui_term_dialog_box'
replot
set term pop

(A "set output push" might be useful, too.)

Dan