On 2007-08-02 23:04-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Now for some issues I discovered with the pscairo results. > > (1) The bounding box is not correct. (I believe that is a known issue which > you plan to fix.) > > (2) At least for single pages I planned to get around the bounding box issue > using > > -dev pscairo -o - | ps2eps -l -q --ignoreBB > filename.eps. > > but stdout (at least when invoked by "-o -" which is the PLplot standard for > specifying stdout) does not work. In fact, if you try it with -dev pscairo > you will simply get output to the filename "-". (Files with that name are > tough to get rid of unless you remember the special construct "rm -- -".) > > I can get around this stdout issue for now by the following clumsy construct > to fix the bounding box > > -dev pscairo -o temp.ps ; cat temp.ps |ps2eps -l -q --ignoreBB > filename; \ > rm -f temp.ps > > (3) There are still minor 3D plot labelling problems. For example, if you > look at example 8 the y-axis labels (and possibly the z-axis labels) are > oriented properly (Hazen, thanks for fixing that issue!), but they have a > size that is too large. To see this I suggest you visually compare with the > same plot generated with -dev psc.
Just discovered another pscairo issue. (4) Text clipping has not yet been implemented. (The first page of example 9 shows this issue as well as some of my research plots.) 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 libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
