Re: Compile warnings in new post/pslatex terminal code

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

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Monday 14 February 2005 09:28 am, Harald Harders wrote:
> >
> > Have you had a look at the header that is produced by gnuplot when using
> > 'standalone'? It's not that easy to write it. It automatically selects the
> > same fontsize for the output as the plot uses for calculating space of
> > text. It sets the correct page size for dvips, VTeX, and pdflatex (which
> > really is hard to do by hand for pdflatex).
>
> Isn't that just a really convoluted way to "set term pdf" ?
> Why go through latex at all if you really want a pdf plot?

The pdf term is _really_ much inferior to all postscript-based terminals.
I have always been using the options rounded, dashlength, linewidth,
monochrome|colour. And I am using different fonts than the core PDF fonts.
Thus, I cannot use the pdf terminal at all. In addition, the full
LaTeX syntax for text is really nice, far better than the enhanced text
support of gnuplot.
  When -- in future -- the pdf terminal may support everything the
postscript terminal already supports I will think of using the pdf
terminal.

Regards
Harald

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