Hi, while working on a plot for my thesis I thought it would be cool to have pdf output. I was googling around and found a free pdf library (zlib license) in ANSI C, working on all major platforms:
http://libharu.sourceforge.net/index.html So I took the svg driver, rewrote it for the pdf library, wrote some cmake modules and ready I was (after some hours :). To use this driver we need first to install it (configure/make/make install for Linux, and make -f script/Makefile.??? for Windows) and set the environment variables for cmake accordingly so that cmake can find it: set HPDFDIR=%USER_ROOTDIR%\libharu-2.0.8 set PATH=%HPDFDIR%;%PATH% (for windows dll) set CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH=%HPDFDIR%\include;%CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH% set CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH=%HPDFDIR%;%CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH% There seems to be no debian/rpm package of this library, so Linux users need to compile this library as well. Than run cmake with -DPLD_pdf=ON (since it is disabled by default) and off we go. Five remarks: 1) in pdf.cmake is a compile flag added which won't work for Unix -DHPDF_DLL - this I need to change. 2) The paper size is hardcoded to A4 in the moment - good for Europeans, bad for anybody else, I need to add some flags for other formats. 3) the font used is only the hershey fonts in the moment - on the basis of the svg driver I should be able to add nice fonts. 4) I didn't test the driver on Linux yet, but I don't expect much problems. 5) Output is not compressed in the moment, since I need zlib for Windows as well (not too much problem), so expect big files - but the driver is actually very fast. I hope this driver is useful - if my choice of the pdf library is not welcome, there is not much problems using another one - if there is another library which suits our needs better. Regards, Werner -- Dipl. Ing. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
