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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>The ps driver</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Documentation of the PLplot plotting software"><link rel="up" href="file-drivers.html" title="Chapter 5. Drivers which implement file devices"><link rel="prev" href="svg-driver.html" title="The svg driver"><link rel="next" href="truetype-postscript-driver.html" title="The psttf driver"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">The ps driver</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svg-driver.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 5. Drivers which implement file devices</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="truetype-postscript-driver.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="postscript-driver"></a>The ps driver</h2></div></div></div><p>
The ps driver produces publication-quality PostScript
output but only for a limited selection of glyphs. The driver
provides two devices: the ps device for black-and-white plots, and the
psc device for color plots.
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This driver is unicode enabled, and PostScript Type I fonts are
used. This driver has no external
library dependencies. However, a drawback is that text layout is
limited to left-to-right scripts (i.e., languages with complex text
layout are not supported). Furthermore, Type I fonts have an
extremely limited selection of glyphs compared to, e.g., TrueType
fonts (see <a class="xref" href="truetype-postscript-driver.html" title="The psttf driver">the section called “The psttf driver”</a>). For this
reason, Hershey fonts are used for drawing symbols by default for this
device driver, unless specified otherwise using the driver options.
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The available driver options are:
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text: Use PostScript text (0|1); default 1
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color: Use color (0|1); default 1
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hrshsym: Use Hershey fonts for symbols (0|1); default 1
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