[Date Index] [Thread Index] [Author Index]

Re: Display Bug

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg22387] Re: Display Bug
• From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
• Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:55:27 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
• References: <89a5bn$9gt@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <89a5bn$9gt at smc.vnet.net>,
 me at talmanl1.mscd.edu writes:

> That the defect is in the Display operator is evident from two circumstances:
> 
>   1.)  The same distortion is evident in the GIF if we view it using some
>        piece of software other than Mathematica
>        
>   2.)  Version 4.0's Export operator does not exhibit this behavior.     
> 
> When I informed WRI of this anomaly, their response was that, indeed, 
> "Export" is the preferred manner of exporting graphics.  

The reason for the difference in behavior is that for Display[], the 
external program psrender is used to render the Mathematica PostScript
version of the graphic.  In the case of Export[] (when a front end is
present, the kernel requests a bitmap from the front end based on what
the front end's PostScript interpreter produces.

-- 
P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group           paulh at wolfram.com
Wolfram Research, Inc.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone.