Plot2kill 0.2

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:31:22 -0500, dsimcha wrote:

> On 3/5/2011 1:27 PM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>> Does this mean that it can save to vector formats now, or just that you
>> intend to add that functionality?  EPS would be awesome, because it's
>> pretty much the only thing you can use directly with LaTeX.  (Yes,
>> pdfLaTeX accepts many other formats, but many scientific journals still
>> require you to provide EPS figures.)
>>
>> Of course, one can usually convert losslessly between the various
>> vector formats, but it would be most convenient if Plot2kill could save
>> directly to EPS, PDF and SVG.
>>
>> -Lars
> 
> ?????  Plot2kill (the GTK version) has been able to save to EPS, SVG,
> PDF, PNG, JPEG and BMP since I switched the GTK port to use the Cairo
> backend last July.  (The DFL port can only do BMP and PNG.)  If this is
> a killer feature for you, I apologize for not publicizing it more back
> then.  I've been eating my own dogfood since then.  All of the graphs in
> my Ph.D. proposal and a publication manuscript I'm working on are
> Plot2Kill rendered and saved in vector formats.

Oh, I didn't know that.  That's very cool!  I can't remember seeing an 
announcement of this feature from you, nor did I expect the feature to be 
there, so I guess I just didn't look that closely for it. :)

-Lars