At 12:04 PM 10/09/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>(Worse) graphics antialiasing is better implemented for png than it is for
>pngcairo.  The -drvopt smoothlines=1 option for -dev png gives smooth
>looking drawn lines without messing with the filled areas.

One caveat is that the png antialiasing can only be used with line widths 
of 1 - if you specify wider lines and have antialiasing turned on, they 
will always be drawn with a width of 1.

>(Same) Some png and pngcairo examples (especially example 3 and example 13)
>have large black margins around them.  In general, the margins should be
>trimmed to the area which was actually used for the graphics + text such as
>occurs for -dev psttfc and -dev psc (for Hershey fonts).  (I have been
>discussing with Hazen off-list the possibilities for implementing the option
>of cropping the unused margins of cairo results, but there doesn't seem to
>be any obvious way to do this with libcairo.  I do have a question about
>this posted to the cairo mailing list, and if they come up with something
>that we are able to implement, then this issue will be reclassified from
>"Same" to "Better".)

I think this would be caused by plplot and not the drivers. With respect to 
margins, the drivers are "dumb" and just plot what plplot tells them.


>(Better) There is a bug in -dev png that shows up for the second and
>subsequent pages of some plots.  See e.g.,
>http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples-data/demo09/x09.02.png where the box
>line disappears and the numbers get blurry or

I can't recall having seen that issue with the numbers getting blurry like 
this. Can you try repeating it with text smoothing turned off and see if it 
still occurs ? This one looks more like a freeetype issue.


TTFN,
Andrew


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