Re: /f + /h, color box

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

Petr Mikulik wrote:
>>> => the output is clearly full of lines (png16m) or dots (png256). The 
>>> pdf
>>> file does not raster at all under gs 8.5, and with empty area under gs
>>> 7.07.
>>
>>
>> I really struggled with this anti-aliasing problem until "with
>> image" was introduced.
> 
> 
> Wow, that's a pity you haven't struggled to figure out & submit this bug 
> over that long time since "with image".
> 
>> Would it be possible to draw the colorbox using the "image" code?  I 
>> know that this doesn't generally solve the problem, but its effects 
>> would be reduced significantly.
> 
> 
> Then it would require WITH_IMAGE to be compiled in (is it the way 
> "term->filled_gradient" should be implemented?)

Actually, one could still use an image concept for plotting terminals yet not have WITH_IMAGE.  But I agree, it seems odd to have the plot constructed of overlapping, potentially aliasing polygons, but not the colorbox.

Dan