| PostScript Background Color Preference [message #73609] |
Wed, 17 November 2010 08:02 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
I tout in my new graphics commands (FSC_Plot, FSC_Contour, etc.)
that they "look the same on your display and in a PostScript file".
But, of course, that's only true if you always use, as I tend
to, white backgrounds for your graphical output. The joke, of
course, is that you can have any background color you like
in PostScript, as long as it's white.
This is not true, you *can* have different colored
backgrounds in PostScript, but you do have to go to
some trouble to get them.
Here is my question. I can produce different background colors in
PostScript in my new graphics commands, but is this what people
want and expect? My reasoning is that if I use a command and I write
BACKGROUND='rose', and I want a command that "works everywhere",
then I should expect a rose colored background everywhere.
But, I can't quite pull the trigger on this. For some reason,
it's doesn't feel like *exactly* what I want, even with all
the big talk. What do you think? What would you want?
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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