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. Regards, Steve On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 08:32 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: > Steve Schwartz wrote: > > > > >Also, I'm still having difficulty printing a postscript plot on a page; > >it looks fine in ghostscript (with the view set to A4 or Letter paper), > >but prints to a ps printer blown up by a factor ~4.8. Passing through > >eps2eps, epstopdf, or any other filter generates a file that prints fine > >on a page, but I'd be interested in how others print plplot postscript > >plots. > > > > > Hi Steve, > > I have never had much problems with the PostScript output (using the ps > device driver), > but I use the PostScript filter on our system printers directly. I have > had issues with > margins, but that is a general problem with printers. > > Regards, > > Arjen > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Professor Steven J Schwartz Phone: +44-(0)20-7594-7660 Space and Atmospheric Physics Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-7772 The Blackett Laboratory E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imperial College London Office: Huxley 6M70 London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Web: http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~sjs +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
