Steve Schwartz wrote: >Hi Arjen, > >My observation is that one ought to be able to send the postscript file >directly to a postscript printer (I've tried both HP and Xerox >printers). Passing it through a filter (eps2eps, or whatever - most/all >of which amount to passing it through ghostscript) risks degrading it >through a rendering engine that might, for example, substitute fonts, or >draw them rather than embed them. Ultimately it leads to a bit of >frustration if used by the innocent user, or sent to someone else who >tries to print it and only ends up with the top left portion (despite it >looking fine within ghostview) and who might not know other tricks to >play. > >I guess the issue is somewhere in the way the scaling is handled; other >drivers (e.g., the pscairo one) and other (e)psf's don't show this >problem, so it must be solvable. I originally wondered if it had >something to do with the fact that it was an epsf (figure) rather than a >ps (page), but again other epsf's print fine natively to a ps printer. > >Unfortunately, although I speak a couple of languages in addition to >English (including C and a bit of French), postscript isn't one of them. > > > Hi Steve,
I have expressed myself somewhat inaccurately: the command by which I send the PostScript files to the printer is simply "lp". The printer driver that then gets invoked will do all manner of things to get the file printed, but I do not know what steps are involved - nothing that I need to worry about. Now, I do remember that we had difficulties getting the colours completely correct, but that was an issue under Windows, not under Linux (and something quite apart from PLplot, actually: printers use a colour translation table to get the "best" fit of a colour specified in PS on paper). Regards, Arjen (who speaks a bunch of languages, also including French, but excluding PostScript) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
