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>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Barrett <ba...@st...> writes:
 
 Paul> It would be nice if they would update their documents, since
 Paul> the %%BeginFont and %%EndFont keywords are from their
 Paul> document about embedding fonts.
 Hey, give 'em a minute will you? They just released the 3.0 spec in
 '92. It's going to take them a while to get the rest of their site
 docs updated... :-)
JDH

Jochen Voss wrote:
>Hello John,
>
>On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:00:48AM -0500, John Hunter wrote:
> 
>
>>>>>>>"Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>
>> Jochen> None, I looked at the generated PS file out of curiosity
>> Jochen> and noticed that it does not follow the DSC conventions
>> Jochen> very well. As this is just shuffling around comments it
>> Jochen> will probably not affect many applications.
>>
>>Are there other noncompliant things in the matplotlib ps output that
>>you are aware of, other than those you already fixed?
>> 
>>
>I think the horrible ones are fixed by now.
>
>Minor issues:
>
>The DSC spec states (at page 18): "If there is a section in
>the document that corresponds to a particular comment, that comment
>*must* be used to identify that section of the document."
>
>From reading this I would guess that all the "/something { ... } bind
>def" statements and the included fonts should be inside a
>
> %%BeginPrologue
> %%EndPrologue
>
>block. But I didn't check this properly.
>
>Then page 19 "strongly suggests" to use some headers like
>"%%CreationDate" and "%%Title".
>
>Page 70 of the SDC specification states that "%%BeginFont" and
>"%%EndFont" are outdated and should be replaced by "%%BeginResource"
>and "%%EndResource" statements.
> 
>
It would be nice if they would update their documents, since the 
%%BeginFont and %%EndFont keywords are from their document about 
embedding fonts.
 -- Paul
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