Hi Werner: Just to give some background for everybody, CGM is a well-established open web standard for vector + raster graphics (see http://www.cgmopen.org/technical/cgm_standard.html) that was developed long before the excitement about the SVG standard for vector graphics. If you do a google search for the terms (cgm viewer), there are many free viewers available (mostly for the windows platform but there are some Linux ones as well). I use the ralcgm application on Linux to view CGM images. Werner, I suggest you download one of free windows viewers to be sure that the results you are getting with -dev cgm are acceptable on your platform.
Our -dev cgm uses libcd, which is no longer maintained by anybody but which works well. It's largely public-domain software, but the parts of it which were derived from an early version of libgd necessarily use the same copyright terms as libgd. The original version of cd1.3.tar.gz has disappeared from the web, but http://www.pa.msu.edu/reference/cgmdraw_ref.html keeps a copy of the documentation (also included in the tarball as cd1.3/cd.html) and points to a copy of the tarball. We also keep a copy of the tarball (as you know) at SF to make sure that source code and documentation do not disappear. Werner, I was very pleased to hear how quickly you were able to configure a windows build of libcd using CMake. I think your idea of putting complete instructions on how to build libcd on the PLplot wiki is a good one. Furthermore, I suggest you put those instructions and the required CMakeLists.txt file in cmake/external/libcd in our source tree. (Once there, I will modify the CMakeLists.txt file for the Linux case if such modification is necessary.) I also suggest you give your CMakeLists.txt work some publicity by making an entry at http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Projects (as I have already done for PLplot). You never know, somebody might be inspired by your CMake effort and resurrect libcd as an active software package again. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
