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Re: Color output for documentation eps images
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Ben Abbott |
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Re: Color output for documentation eps images |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:43:21 -0500 |
On Thursday, December 03, 2009, at 01:39PM, "Rik" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Ben,
>
>The latest postscript documentation is built with black and white
>images. This is in contrast to either the pdf or the HTML documentation
>which features color images. With on-screen renderers, many people use
>postscript for screen reading rather than ever printing out the files.
>I think it would be better to include color images and let the user
>decide to convert to monochrome during the print process if they so
>desire. (Who knows, perhaps they have a color printer?)
>
>I can modify the XXXXimages.m scripts in the doc/interpreter directory
>to add the option '-color' in every print call since this is safe for
>the other formats, but I'm wondering if you were aware of an easier way
>to set the default? I suppose we could switch to using the 'epsc'
>output device and then rename the resulting files. Or maybe reconfigure
>the script to do a check for the .eps type and set only the device to
>'epsc' but leave the output filename ending as .eps.
>
>Any thoughts,
>Rik
>
I don't have a suggestion for an easier way.
Either adding -color or I setting the device to epsc when the file suffix is
eps should work.
Ben
Re: Color output for documentation eps images, Rik, 2009/12/03
Re: Color output for documentation eps images, Rik, 2009/12/04