[pdftex] possible metapost inclusion bug
Patrick Riley
pfr+pdftex at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Oct 24 14:14:38 CEST 2002
Klaus Guntermann writes:
> In the process of creating the files to be included there is an
> optimization which does not specify the color of any picture item, if
> it is black and all previous items have been black, too.
> This has the advantage that you can change the color of all items if
> they are all black, just by changing the current color before you
> include the picture. We have used this (and therefore classified this
> as a feature) to include the same picture all black for a printed paper
> version or in a different color to highlight it on a slide, using the
> same picture representation.
xfig has a color "Default" as well as a color black. Are these
distinct colors? If so, it would seem to me that the default color
should behave as you suggest, and black should always be black.
Thank you.
--
Patrick Riley
Fourth Year Ph.D. Student
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pfr
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