The Debian testing pango/cairo stack that I am using now has the following version information:
libpango1.0-dev 1.18.3-1 libcairo2-dev 1.4.10-1+b2 Debian unstable has the same versions (i.e., there are no big changes for pango/cairo on the horizon for Debian testing.) The stack that I built and used for my debian oldstable distro had the following pango and cairo versions: pango-1.16.4 cairo-1.4.6 so it is clear that stack was substantially older than the present debian testing/unstable version. The good news is this latest stack is better in some ways than the older stack; all the pdfcairo results look excellent now with full antialiasing while antialiasing was missing from the pdfcairo results of the older stack. Some results seem identical between the latest and older stacks; the excellent results I had before for pngcairo and xcairo continue as well as the disappointing results from svgcairo (no text, some other parts of plots are missing as well, and multipage plots just give the last page). The bad news is the latest stack produces worse pscairo results than the older stack; for the latest stack all multi-page examples have large parts of the plot missing while they are fine for the older stack. For example, sometimes you only get a series of blank pages. Fortunately for my research (where I use single-page pscairo results a lot) all single-page pscairo examples seem to be fine. I have no clue what is going wrong for the pscairo multi-page results for this latest pango/cairo software stack. Hazen, Andrew, and Orion (every developer I can think of with access to recent pango/cairo): could you please try and reproduce this problem with the multi-page pscairo results? 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: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
