Re: Possible Bug

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Benoit Vinsonneau wrote:

> Actually, following up my previous Email, by defining the colors at the
> same time works fine.
> 
> To resume, this work as expected:
> 
> \newrgbcolor{dialinecolor1}{1 0 1}
> \newrgbcolor{dialinecolor2}{0 1 0}
> \psset{linecolor=dialinecolor1}
> \psellipse*(-0.467225cm,7.106585cm)(0.627885cm,0.627295cm)
> \psset{linecolor=dialinecolor2}
> \psellipse(-0.467225cm,7.106585cm)(0.627885cm,0.627295cm)
> 
> while this does not:
> \newrgbcolor{dialinecolor1}{1 0 1}
> \psset{linecolor=dialinecolor1}
> \psellipse*(-0.467225cm,7.106585cm)(0.627885cm,0.627295cm)
> \newrgbcolor{dialinecolor2}{0 1 0}
> \psset{linecolor=dialinecolor2}
> \psellipse(-0.467225cm,7.106585cm)(0.627885cm,0.627295cm)
> 
> As well, the problem is not limited to \newrgbcolor, \definecolor
> exhibit the same problem.
> 
> George N. White III, you seems to knew already before of this problem.
> Is there any long-term solutions or do I need to change manually all my
> files for the time being?
> 
> Thanks all for your help,

The spacing problems with \color are discussed in the graphics/graphicx
package document, p. 6, see also The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed., p. 870.

For printing with ink, colors are an expensive resource so it is customary
to carefully choose a small number of "spot" colors that will be used in
each document.  A package that doesn't let you use the colors you have
already chosen won't be useful for things that need to printed with ink. 
Maybe you can find a way to limit the use \newrgbcolor to the preamble.  A
quick fix would be to "grep" our the newcolor commands and collect them in
the preamble, then comment out the ones created by the package.

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