Re: Feature in postscript output

Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Fri, 29 Aug 1997 12:50:18 +0200


basil@hbaxp04.mppmu.mpg.de wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have found a strange behaviour of the postscript output of a canvas when using
> the drawing option "cont" (when I reported it the first time I could not
> reproduce it - sorry).
>
> When you have 4 histograms named:
> HitMatrix303
> HitMatrix403
> HitMatrix503
> HitMatrixTarget
>
> and you use the attached macro dtest.C you get a nice output on the screen, but
> the ps-output using the menuoption (File->Save as ps) is somehow corrupted.
> To show it I have put on our web-server in the directory
> http://afmp03.mppmu.mpg.de:8080/~basil/rootbug/
> the files:
> OSFgcc.gif OSFgcc.ps align.root dtest.C
> where the gif is how it looks like on screen.
> The align.root inculdes the 4 histograms.
>

This problem is now fixed in the development version 1.03/02 to appear
in the coming days.
The problem was not connected with Postscript, but very visizble
with Postscript. Picking was also affected in a pad containing
a TH2 object drawn with the option "cont"
Thanks for reporting.

Rene Brun