On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:04:22 -0500, Ashwin Bharambe <ashwinb@...400...> wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I agree that postscript is getting older, but I wouldn't go as far as to say "a thing of the past" :) In particular, I find myself using postscript (and .eps figures) in LaTeX documents and that is why I wanted good support for drawing diagrams and converting them to EPS.
Well, to be fair, LaTeX and especially TeX are even older than PS :)
And for all these years, people used them just fine without any transparency support (in either TeX or PS). So of course I'm not suggesting that you drop them if they work for you, but please understand that these technologies hardly develop anymore. They both are likely to still be used many years from now, but they are just not those places where exciting new things (such as transparency) tend to happen.