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Re: strange palette behavior for postscript terminal

From	Lucie Jilkova <jilkoval@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: strange palette behavior for postscript terminal
Date	2011-08-17 06:51 -0700
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Hola Christoph,

i didn't know about this, i understand now, thanks a lot!

Lucie

On Aug 17, 3:18 am, Christoph Bersch <use...@bersch.net> wrote:
>
> The terminals have a limited resolution, by default the postscript
> terminal uses 8 bit, the lowest one is white, the rest is blue. That is
> why also e.g. 0.001 is painted white.
> The maximum resolution of the postscript terminal is 12 bit (from the
> language specification), the cairo-terminals have higher resolution (16
> or 32 bit?). To see this, reduce the number of colors with the wxt
> terminal which gives you the same result as the postscript output:

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strange palette behavior for postscript terminal Lucie Jilkova <jilkoval@gmail.com> - 2011-08-16 20:41 -0700
  Re: strange palette behavior for postscript terminal Christoph Bersch <usenet@bersch.net> - 2011-08-17 09:18 +0200
    Re: strange palette behavior for postscript terminal Lucie Jilkova <jilkoval@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 06:51 -0700
  Re: strange palette behavior for postscript terminal sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2011-08-17 08:49 -0700
    Re: strange palette behavior for postscript terminal Lucie Jilkova <jilkoval@gmail.com> - 2011-08-17 15:44 -0700

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