[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#365757: octave-epstk: eps lines not optimized

[Francesco Potorti`]

Package: octave-epstk
Version: 2.1-2
Severity: wishlist

Very often, while plotting big quantities of data, I have redundant
points.  For example this X Y vector:

0 0                         0 0
1 1			    1 1
2 1			    8 1
3 1			    8 4
4 1			    9 5
8 1  could be reduced to
8 1
8 2
8 3
8 4
9 5

as far as plotting is concerned.  This optimisation reduces the size of
the eps file and the time it needs to be rendered either on screen or by
a printer.  I had cases where such an optimisation reduces the size by
ten times.

It would be nice it plot() did this.  It should merge two successive
segments if the second one is a prolongation of the first one, with a
tolerance depending on the plot scale.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.30-pre2-pr-hrt-1kHz-1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=it_IT at euro (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)

Versions of packages octave-epstk depends on:
ii  octave2.1                     1:2.1.73-7 GNU Octave language for numerical 

octave-epstk recommends no packages.

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