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Re: pattern artifacts in pdf and eps

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On 13 Okt., 20:07, sfeam <sf...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Don wrote:
> > I use the filledcurves option in plot with gnuplot 4.4.3 for windows
> > 32 under windows XP. As term I use eps or pdf (also tried pdfcairo) as
> > I want to include figures into pdflatex. I want to include the figures
> > in a paper, so they should be neat.
> > On screen the resultant graphics show strong artifacts, namely white
> > or black lines along edges of "tiles".
> > I found in some forums the hint that this are probably anti-aliasing
> > artifacts of the ps-viewer (gv 3.6.5 under cygwin) or the pdf-viewer
> > (tried acrobat reader 9.3, foxit 3.2, sumatra 1.8). Using gv with -
> > noantialias nearly removes the artifacts on screen, although I can
> > still make out the white lines. They are also present on the printout
> > (on a Kyocera PCL XL with 600 dpi).
>
> At a guess, the output to your Kyocera is prepared by ghostscript.
> So it's the same ghostscript anti-aliasing bug.
>
> > With pdf output things are even worse.
>
> The pattern-fill in pdfcairo is not entirely satisfactory, again due to
> flaws in an external tool.  It has gotten better in libcairo 1.10, but
> still could be improved.  There will be a partial workaround in gnuplot
> version 4.4.4

Thank you,
so I am eagerly awaiting version 4.4.4.
Do you think that professional programs (especially the ones used by
publishers of scientific journals) will have problems with
these gnuplot eps files?

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pattern artifacts in pdf and eps Don <dondonnan@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-13 03:01 -0700
  Re: pattern artifacts in pdf and eps sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-10-13 11:07 -0700
    Re: pattern artifacts in pdf and eps Don <dondonnan@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-17 00:58 -0700

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