Re: [matplotlib-devel] minor fixes to backend_ps

[Paul B. <ba...@st...>]

Jochen Voss wrote:

>Hello John,
>
>On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:00:48AM -0500, John Hunter wrote:
>  
>
>>>>>>>"Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:
>>>>>>>              
>>>>>>>
>>    Jochen> None, I looked at the generated PS file out of curiosity
>>    Jochen> and noticed that it does not follow the DSC conventions
>>    Jochen> very well.  As this is just shuffling around comments it
>>    Jochen> will probably not affect many applications.
>>
>>Are there other noncompliant things in the matplotlib ps output that
>>you are aware of, other than those you already fixed?
>>    
>>
>I think the horrible ones are fixed by now.
>
>Minor issues:
>
>The DSC spec states (at page 18): "If there is a section in
>the document that corresponds to a particular comment, that comment
>*must* be used to identify that section of the document."
>
>From reading this I would guess that all the "/something { ... } bind
>def" statements and the included fonts should be inside a
>
>    %%BeginPrologue
>    %%EndPrologue
>
>block.  But I didn't check this properly.
>
>Then page 19 "strongly suggests" to use some headers like
>"%%CreationDate" and "%%Title".
>
>Page 70 of the SDC specification states that "%%BeginFont" and
>"%%EndFont" are outdated and should be replaced by "%%BeginResource"
>and "%%EndResource" statements.
>  
>
It would be nice if they would update their documents, since the 
%%BeginFont and %%EndFont keywords are from their document about 
embedding fonts.

 -- Paul

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