Re: problems revealed by new demos

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

Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> I also just tried running gnuplot's "test" image through the epslatex 
> terminal.  Running the "xdvi" on the compiled output files results in 
> the polyfill not appearing.  Doing "dvips test -o test.ps" created a 
> PostScript file that crashed on the polyfill.  As you are arguing 
> above, if it works in PostScript, a seemless transition to related 
> terminals should be expected. 


Oh, I see that none of the common definitions are put inside the PS 
portion of the epslatex terminal scheme.  So the "PolyFill" command 
fails because it isn't defined in the files header.  Somewhere epslatex 
needs to call PS_common_init().  Skimming through Harald's epslatex 
patch, I don't see that it does that.  Should this be fixed before or 
after the patch is applied?

I see the problem doesn't exist in 4.0.0, probably because that code did 
not use a definition of PolyFill, just straight PostScript code.  The 
post.trm was probably rewritten to use PolyFill.  epslatex, like pslatex 
, uses the routine directly, however pslatex does call PS_common_init().

Dan Sebald