Ilya Zakharevich on Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:49:43 +0200


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Re: [PATCH v2.11.1] High-resolution PS plotting 

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:28:27PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 05:09:42AM +0200, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > After the high-quality plotting was removed from gp/PARI (around v2.0.22,
> > IIRC), only very rough hardcopy plots are available.¹⁾
> > 
> >   ¹⁾ Math::Pari comes with patches which restore this functionality, up
> >      to v2.3.* of GP/PARI.
> > 
> > The main problems are:

> Note that you can create SVG now with plotexport.

ℵ) You could do it in 2.0.* too.

ℶ) I’m not sure, but why do you think it is better than the current
   mess with postscript?

ℷ) I think tools for PS→PDF are much more common than those for SVG→PS.
   And I think most people want PDF (or TeX — which was also possible
   with 2.0.*) as the end result.

Ilya

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