[Maxima-discuss] Draw2d to screen and to PDF looks very different

[Eduardo O. <edu...@gm...>]

Hi list,

the screenshot that I am attaching shows how the output of `draw2d'ing
to the screen looks different from the output of `draw2d'ing to a PDF
file. How do I fix that?

I am also attaching a file "draw2d_to_screen_and_to_pdf.mac" that
generates this/these drawing(s). My original drawing was made with my
extensions for Qdraw, but "draw2d_to_screen_and_to_pdf.mac" is a
translation of my code to plain Maxima...

...and I am also attaching the files that my .mac file created and
sent to gnuplot, with a few minimal changes to make them easy to run -
people can test them by downloading the files data.gnuplot,
maxout_screen.gnuplot and maxout_pdf.gnuplot into an empty directory
and then running this:

  gnuplot -p maxout_screen.gnuplot
  gnuplot    maxout_pdf.gnuplot
  xpdf o.pdf

If we diff the files maxout_screen.gnuplot and maxout_pdf.gnuplot we
can see that they only differ in their first lines -

  set terminal GNUTERM   size 600, 500

versus:

  set terminal pdf dashed enhanced  color size 6.0cm, 5.0cm
  set out 'o.pdf'

  Thanks in advance!
    Eduardo Ochs