On Mon, 25-Aug-2003 at 08:03AM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
|> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Patrick Connolly wrote:
|>
|> > > version
[...]
|> > However, what wasn't obvious to me was that it is necessary to specify
|> > what family to use. If no family is specified, the default family
|> > does appear to be used, BUT, the resulting file is no different from a
|> > 'regular postscript' file. The value in ps.options does not seem to
|> > be used in the same way.
|>
|> The family used is nothing to do with EPS. The code is always
|> EPS-conformant (but may not be a single page), but the *header* is only
|> sometimes, the times being documented.
|>
|> > Is this intentional behaviour?
|>
|> Is what, exactly?
A. What I thought was going on with family seemily being used
differently when paper was 'special'.
Now with some gentle prodding, I see that I was confusing two
different plots I was working on. Some swapping back into memory
hadn't finished on Monday morning when I made my observation. All
rather embarrassing.
|> A long-timer such as yourself really, really should know not to
|> send in vague statements not backed up by the code used to leap to
|> these conclusions!
Yesterday, I knew considerably less about the difference between EPS
and regular PostScript (and most of that was misconception), so I was
unaware how simple the distinction was. Constrained by that
ignorance, I couldn't think of a way of showing more clearly what I
was on about.
Thanks Brian for your patience in helping me sort that out.
I have a small question about that difference:
Am I correct now in thinking that apart from the first line of a
single page graphic file (with current versions) reading
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
instead of
%!PS-Adobe-3.0,
the only substantial differences between an EPS and a PS file are the
positioning of the origin of the bounding box at 0, 0 and the removal
of page orientation information?
Thanks
--
Patrick Connolly
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