Re: problems revealed by new demos

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

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, 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.

Have you used a patched epslatex terminal or the original one?

> 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?

My patch uses PS_init in the TERM_TABLE of the epslatex terminal which
itself calls PS_common_init. Thus, my patch should fix this problem. In
all test I have done I have compared the output of the postscript terminal
with the epslatex output using 'diff'. The only difference was the missing
text definitions in epslatex (which of course must be missing there).

Harald

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