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Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the rev


From: Peter Schaffter
Subject: Re: [groff] PSPIC vs PDFPIC: adjust documentation to reality, or the reverse?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 12:00:01 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

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



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