Re: fltk printing

[Shai Ayal]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
>
>> Shai,
>>
>> I just noticed something that I thought I should ask
>> about before doing more:
>>
>> First, I noticed that when the fltk backend is active,
>> since the latest reorganizing of print.m and __gnuplot__print,
>> etc. fltk only does eps output.  But, I happened to be
>> doing some plotting in a directory which had a copy of
>> the old print.m it.  Using the old print.m and fltk backend
>> I could generate pdf without problems.
>>
>> I looked at the code and there is quite a lot in
>> __gnuplot__print__.m  that is not gnuplot specific. In
>> particular the use of ghostscript to do things like pdf,
>> and all the other conversions not handled by gnuplot.
>>
>> So, rather than duplicate code in __fltk__print__.m
>> it appears that  something like a __ghostscript__.m
>> script is called for.  Both __gnuplot__print__.m and
>> __fltk__print__.m would use that for all the output types
>> handled by ghostscript.
>>
>> So, does this sound like the right thing to do?
>>
>> Michael
>
> Michael,
>
> I'm working on adding the tex / pstex / epslatex / epslatexstandalone 
> terminals to __fltk_print__. I hope to be able to propose a changeset in the 
> next few days.  Have you made any local changes to __fltk_print__ yet?
>
> If not, shall I email you a preliminary version of what I have to make 
> integrating our efforts easier? ... or if you have, perhaps you can send me a 
> copy of what you have?
>
I also have made no uncommitted changes

Shai