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Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the rev
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Peter Schaffter |
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Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse? |
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Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:00:01 -0400 |
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2018, Deri James wrote:
> ============================================================================
> PDFPIC has now been corrected, so the behaviour is the same whether you use
> the postscript or pdf drivers. However, this means that any documents which
> were written using the old behaviour will not be rendered correctly if using
> the pdf driver with the new version.
>
> The change would mean that documents which relied on the previous behaviour
> are likely to have a gap underneath the image which was not there before. If
> you see this effect there are three ways you can restore the previous
> behaviour (listed in order of priority):-
>
> A) Add the line ".nr PDFPIC_LEGACY 1" to the document before the first call
> to
> .PDFPIC.
>
> B) If it is just a single document which exhibits this behaviour you can run
> groff adding "-rPDFPIC_LEGACY=1" to the command-line.
>
> C) If you have many documents which rely on the previous behaviour you can
> set
> an environment variable "export PDFPIC_LEGACY=1" which will restore the
> previous behaviour for all runs.
>
> Note that this change has no effect it you were using .PDFPIC with the
> postscript driver, only if you used it with the pdf driver.
> =============================================================================
>
> Does this sound sensible?
Eminently.
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Peter Schaffter
http://www.schaffter.ca
- [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Bernhard Fisseni, 2018/04/01
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/02
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Deri James, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Ralph Corderoy, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?,
Peter Schaffter <=
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Colin Watson, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Ted Harding, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Tadziu Hoffmann, 2018/04/10
- Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?, Deri James, 2018/04/10