Option 'ai' in Postscript terminal

[Harald H. <h.h...@tu...>]

In this mailing list some discussion has been about the 'nolevel2' option
in postscript terminal which now has been changed to 'ai' in CVS. I do not
like the new name and prefer the suggestion 'level1' that also has been
made here (or even better the suggestion described below). Some reasons:

- Newer Versions of Adobe Illustrator (at least AI CS 11) do understand
  the level 2 code. Thus, using 'ai' is misleading here.
- There are other programmes that fail using the new code, for example gv
  (while gs understands it).
- The option switches off Level 2 code and switches to Level 1,
  independently where you use the output. Thus naming what it does is
  better.

What about an option 'pslevel' that takes an argument:
- 'pslevel 1' restricts to Postscript level 1
- 'pslevel 2' allows Postscript level 2 (some day, PS level 3 features may
  be added)
With this method, future problems with level questions will be avoided.

What do you think?

Yours
Harald

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