Re: Transparently filled plots to eps

In article <g5mu38$2dp$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Hendrik van Hees  <Hendrik.vanHees@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>First of all I'd like to give my compliments to the developers for
>providing in the CVS version 4.3 the great feature of transparent fill
>styles. It works very well with both png and pdf (for
>plotting "uncertainty bands", i.e., filling between two curves). 
>
>As I learned by some "googleing" eps doesn't sup****t transparency. So my
>naive idea was just to prepare pdf and use pdf2ps to convert to eps,
>resulting in a huge eps file. Is there a workaround (e.g., using
>transparent patterns for filling)?

If you specifically want patterns (rather than translucent solids)
the it is sup****ted already in version 4.2.   At the top of the output
*.ps or *.eps file is a set of global properties:

%
% The following 6 true/false flags may be edited by hand if required
% The unit line width may also be changed
%
/Color true def
/Blacktext false def
/Solid true def
/Dashlength 1 def
/Landscape true def
/Level1 false def
/Rounded false def
/TransparentPatterns false def
/gnulinewidth 5.000 def
/userlinewidth gnulinewidth def
%

Set TransparentPatterns to true and you should be all set.
-- 
Ethan A Merritt