[Xcircuit-dev] hidden files in xcircuit-3.6.73-1

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear Wim,

> Since some time ago, a perl script is hanging around in our 
> department that converts a matlab plot (.eps) to XCircuit's native eps 
> format. This allows to use XCircuit to edit the font of the legend, change 
> the line width of the axes, etc...

I would like to point out one problem that may need to be addressed
(I haven't yet looked at the Perl code in detail).  Matlab will write
array data as generated, which may contain thousands of points.
XCircuit will handle this with no problem, since it just allocates
memory as necessary for any element.  Ghostscript, likewise, should
have no problem with it.  Specific PostScript printers, though, (and
this is according to the PostScript manual) may have a limited stack
depth and may generate an error if a polygon is too large.  I haven't
ever encountered this limit on a printer, and would be interested to
know if anyone has.  Maybe all printer implementations of PostScript
are designed to handle arbitrarily deep data stacks.

Thanks for posting the link to the web page.  Can I make a link to it
from the XCircuit web page?

					---Tim

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