Re: few remarks

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

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 01:32 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 mi...@ph... wrote:
> 
> > postscript terminal contains new option "level2". I propose to add (or
> > rather change to) option "level1" -- I guess it is more natural to restrict
> > to PS Level 1 printer by saying "set term post level1" rather than
> > "set term post nolevel2". (Also, it may become confusing whether
> > "PS Level 3" printer is "level2" or "nolevel2").
> 
> Agreed.

All the names I could think of are mis-leading.  The option does not
really turn off all Level 2 features, only some related to pattern-fill.
I thought about making the command
	nopatternfill
but that isn't right either because it can still handle pattern-fill for
simple rectangles using Level 1 code.

This all started as part of an attempt to make the PostScript output
compatible with older versions of Adobe Illustrator. Maybe the option
should just be:

	set term post ai

The documentation can mention that the same work-around
that allows Illustrator to handle the output may also be useful for
some old printers that do not support Level 2 pattern definitions.

Which brings us all the way around to the original question -
if this option works (under whatever name), do we still need
a separate driver ai.trm?


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