Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-982765 ] Patch for AI (Adobe Illustrator) term

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

> or using it for definition of a new function
> 
>   /NewPatternFill {
>   ...
>   } def
> 
> the file can be loaded. May be the pattern fill code can test if
> NewPatternFill has already been used (by setting a boolean) and then call
> it once if needed.

That is a very interesting idea, but I am not sure that we have
a mechanism in place to allow it.   I suppose this would need to
go into the term->graphics() routine, which is called to start a new
plot. Is there some way for a  'plot' command to pass any information
about requirements to a terminal driver at this point?

Harald:

You may have meant that the test for initialization could be
made in the PostScript code itself, at the point where a call to
one of the Pattern<n> operators would first occur.
But so far my experimentation shows this does not work.
It does work to initialize at the start of a new %Page in 
the document, however.





> Then, eps files that do not use patterns can be loaded 
> while the ones the use them fail to be loaded by Illustrator 7. The
> Computer that runs Illustrator 11 is off, already. But Illustrator 11 has
> been able to load all eps files until now.

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