Re: unified FLTK & Gnuplot printing

[John Swensen]

On Aug 23, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> I've prepared a changeset to unify the printing for both the FLTK and Gnuplot 
> backends.
> 
> For both backends, ghostscript is relied upon more heavily than before. 
> Ghostscript is used to produce most output formats from an eps image of the 
> figure.  The output formats based upon an eps image are bmp, jpg, pbm, pcx, 
> pdf, pgm, pgn, pnm, ppm, ps, and tiff. Using an eps image as the basis for 
> most output formats allow all those formats to benefit from efforts invested 
> in eps output.
> 

On a somewhat related note, are the changes specific to FLTK and Gnuplot, or 
does it apply to any OpenGL based backend and Gnuplot?  The reason I ask is 
because Michael Goffioull and I (mostly Michael) have been working on a 
GTK/OpenGL backend and I wonder how much of the FLTK improvements will apply to 
all OpenGL based backend.

John Swensen