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

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 03:49:41AM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ℶ) I’m not sure, but why do you think it is better than the current
>    mess with postscript?

Precisely. I was wondering if the problem also existed with SVG generation.

> ℷ) I think tools for PS→PDF are much more common than those for SVG→PS.

True. However SVG->PDF is easy.

Cheers,
Bill.