On 2007-03-26 20:59-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > Hello, > > With the Cairo library (http://www.cairographics.org/manual/) it is > possible to make a driver similar to that built on the GD library > that would handle at least the following forms of output (all > truetype & anti-aliased): > > 1. X Windows (this currently exists using Cairo as xwinttf). > 2. Postscript > 3. PDF > 4. SVG > 5. PNG > 6. Memory > 7. Win32 > > Clearly these are all redundant to varying degrees with various > currently existing drivers (psttf, pdf, svg, gd, mem, wingcc), > although (5) and (6) as I understand it do not support anti-aliasing. > Since it isn't too hard to do, I'm inclined to go ahead and add this > redundancy. Thoughts?
That's an excellent idea, and please go ahead and implement it. > Suggestions for driver names? c-pdf? cl-pdf? If a choice between hyphen and underscore to separate I prefer the underscore because, e.g, "-dev c_pdf" is less confusing that "-dev c-pdf" as a command-line option. Another possibility is to separate by capitalization, e.g, pdfCairo I sort of like Cairo at the end (or I guess pdf_c is another possibility) to remind me that this pdf, png, etc., device depends on the Cairo library. However, I am the first to admit I have trouble picking good names. Thus, you get to choose from all the possibilities since you are the author... :-) 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
