Re: Color output for documentation eps images

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, December 03, 2009, at 03:00PM, "Soren Hauberg" <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>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

You make a good point.

I also expect that having the default be mono produces more undesired BW output 
than a default of color would produce undesired color output.

Ben