Re: Color output for documentation eps images

[Robert T. Short]

I personally don't care what the defaults are, but if we base defaults 
on what "we" normally want as individuals, I personally prefer 
encapsulated postscript to be black and white - when I use eps files it 
is for publications (journals, book manuscripts, tech reports, etc.).  
Thus the defaults you are proposing will be wrong for me.

Like I say, whatever you pick is fine and I don't think this issue is 
important enough to fuss about, but I would say just go with MATLAB 
compatibility since anything you do will be wrong for somebody.

What would be really nice is a database of defaults that each individual 
could customize.  Just one more "small" item to work on. 8-)

Bob

Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Thursday, December 03, 2009, at 03:00PM, "Soren Hauberg"<address@hidden>  
> wrote:
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> > tor, 03 12 2009 kl. 14:44 -0500, skrev Ben Abbott:
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> > > On Thursday, December 03, 2009, at 01:49PM, "Michael D. 
> > > Godfrey"<address@hidden>  wrote:
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> > > > On 12/3/09 7:39 PM, Rik wrote:
> > > >          
> > > > > The latest postscript documentation is built with black and white
> > > > > images.  This is in contrast to either the pdf or the HTML documentation
> > > > > which features color images.
> > > > >            
> > > > Is BW default for PostScript a Matlab compatibility requirement?
> > > > If not, it would seem much better to make the default color.  I have, in
> > > > the past, regularly forgotten to set -color and had to redo plots.
> > > > Alternatively, the build could be set back to PDF with the needed
> > > > BB set somehow.
> > > >
> > > > In any case, it seems confusing to have different defaults for
> > > > PostScript and
> > > > PDF.
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >          
> > > Unfortunately, that is how Matlab works :-(
> > >        
> > Is this really a place where we need to be compatible? I mean, really,
> > in which situations does a program fail because a colour eps is
> > generated rather than a grey scale eps?
> >
> > Like Michael, I have also often been forced to redo many plots as I
> > forgot to tell 'print' that I wanted my colourful figure to be saved in
> > colour.
> >
> > Soren
> >      
> You make a good point.
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> I also expect that having the default be mono produces more undesired BW output 
> than a default of color would produce undesired color output.
>
> Ben
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