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Re: Color output for documentation eps images


From: Ben Abbott
Subject: 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




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