Re: Option 'ai' in Postscript terminal

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

On Friday 13 August 2004 02:33 am, Harald Harders wrote:
> - Newer Versions of Adobe Illustrator (at least AI CS 11) do understand
>   the level 2 code. Thus, using 'ai' is misleading here.

So we are still looking for a good name.  That's OK with me;
I'm just trying to make everyone happy.

> - There are other programmes that fail using the new code, for example gv
>   (while gs understands it).

??? gv works for me.  The only issue is the one of anti-aliasing.

> 
> 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.

But the code produced by the driver is *not* Level 1 PostScript,
even without the Pattern definitions.   Calling it Level 1 is just not
correct.

Maybe instead of trying to find a generic label, we must settle for
being absolutely specific:
	set term post {patternlevel2}

This describes precisely what the code option does, at the cost of
a long option name. OK, we could allow almost_equals("pat$ternlevel2")









> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Yours
> Harald
> 

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