Hi Alan, My test results for pscairo.
Ubuntu edgy libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to the point of being unreadable. Ubuntu gutsy (latest stable) libpango1.0-dev 1.18.3-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.4.10-1ubuntu4 A large number of the plots are "missing" parts of the image. Sounds like the same issues you have with Debian testing - pretty much the same version. Doesn't look terribly good. Andrew On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 06:00:20PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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