Re: Username patch

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

Harald Harders wrote:

>I have updated the username patch now to work with the current cvs
>version. Since I don't have Windows available, does somebody compile
>gnuplot with Windows and can test the patch there? Gnuplot should either
>use the Windows login name or one of the environment variables USER or
>USERNAME to set the Author for the pdf and postscript terminal.
>
>When using the postscript terminal, information should be written into the
>postscript file that is interpreted by ghostscript and Acrobat. With
>ghostscript, it works. Can please somebody test if Acrobat also takes
>these information for the pdf file information?
>

Do you mean in Windows?  For Acrobat on linux I'm seeing file 
information in Acrobat for PDF directly and ps2pdf.  (In one case I see 
the Creator is PDFlib Lite 6.0.1 (Linux); in the other case GNU 
Ghostscript 7.07.)  The former PDF looks better because the border white 
space is smaller and more even.  The issue with the latter is 
Ghostscript (probably some margins need to be set in a defaults file).  
The PostScript file created by Gnuplot does hav e a little bit of 
unbalanced white space borders when viewed in letter layout (bounding 
box layout looks fine).  Someone can cross that bridge some other day.  
For some reason "ggv" and "xpdf" do not show file information.  Why?  I 
don't know.

Dan