Re: Color output for documentation eps images

[Søren Hauberg]

tor, 03 12 2009 kl. 14:44 -0500, skrev Ben Abbott:
> On Thursday, December 03, 2009, at 01:49PM, "Michael D. Godfrey" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >On 12/3/09 7:39 PM, Rik wrote:
> >> 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.
> >Is BW default for PostScript a Matlab compatibility requirement?
> >If not, it would seem much better to make the default color.  I have, in
> >the past, regularly forgotten to set -color and had to redo plots.
> >Alternatively, the build could be set back to PDF with the needed
> >BB set somehow.
> >
> >In any case, it seems confusing to have different defaults for 
> >PostScript and
> >PDF.
> >
> >Michael
> 
> Unfortunately, that is how Matlab works :-(

Is this really a place where we need to be compatible? I mean, really,
in which situations does a program fail because a colour eps is
generated rather than a grey scale eps? 

Like Michael, I have also often been forced to redo many plots as I
forgot to tell 'print' that I wanted my colourful figure to be saved in
colour.

Soren