Hazen seems reluctant to praise his cairo device driver so I will do it for him. :-)
All issues I recently identified with the pscairo device have now been fixed by Hazen, and in addition he has added driver options to allow control of antialiasing for either/both text and graphics using the 4 levels of antialiasing hints allowed by libcairo. I have recently been using pngcairo and pscairo in my research work, and I think they have now reached the stage where they are our premier PostScript and PNG devices. Furthermore, xcairo gives (IMO) the best-looking immediate display of PLplot results (although Hazen has planned a lot more work for this device to give it interactive capability). I urge you to try these devices to see if you agree with my assessment about how good-looking the results are. pdfcairo seems to work reasonably well, but it appears not to be as mature as the three other Cairo devices mentioned above. For example, the background colour does not appear for the xpdf viewer (although it does appear for the gv viewer and the ImageMagick display command), and antialiasing does not appear to work for any viewer. All these pdfcairo issues may be libcairo issues. I don't know even how to try to use memcairo, but according to the release notes it does not work. I have just verified svgcairo does not render text (as also mentioned in the release notes). Therefore, I have kept these two cairo devices disabled by default. However, I have recently enabled the remaining cairo devices (pdfcairo, pngcairo, pscairo, and xcairo) by default. 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
