Re: unified FLTK & Gnuplot printing

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 23 August 2010 20:13, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've prepared a changeset to unify the printing for both the FLTK
> and Gnuplot backends.
>
> For both backends, ghostscript is relied upon more heavily than
> before.

I've been meaning to comment on this.

It's nice that you've found a unified method for all formats. I still
think, however, that we could profitably use a bitmap method for
bitmap output formats. Vector graphics aren't good for getting a
picture of a colourful surface with shading at an interesting angle.
It would also be nice to generate an exact screenshot of what's shown
on the screen in a bitmap format, which at least Soren has wished for.

I have no idea how much work this will be, but I want to get started
on it, as an option or alternative to gl2ps at least for some output
formats. Maybe not for the 3.4 release, but soonish.

- Jordi G. H.