On 2007-11-29 16:33-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > My postscript does containt this /CairoFont-3-0 command for these 3 examples > (and only these 3 examples). It renders correctly, and without warnings, on > my gs which is newer than yours. This one we might be able to put down to > ghostscript errors. Do you see this on both you debian testing and > debian oldstable systems?
The "special" definefont pattern contains the line >> definefont pop where the >> is the end of the special dictionary (font) definition. For debian oldstable, this special pattern occurs in examples 6, 7, and 23. For debian testing, this special pattern occurs in examples 7, 23, and 24. >From these differences I think the occurence of this special definefont pattern just depends on what glyphs are missing from the installed fonts on each system. There are some tremendously exotic glyphs demanded by both examples 7 and 23 so it is no surprise those examples occur in both lists. With some work on installing fonts, examples 6 and 24 can be eliminated from the list, but I obviously have not done that perfectly on either system. The special definefont pattern causes no problems for my oldstable gv/gs. It does cause problems (whether I look at sarge results or testing results) for the gs 8.56 on Debian testing. It is interesting that for your later gs, the viewing problems for the special definefont pattern disappear again. I actually could install ghostscript version 8.61.dfsg.1~svn8187-2.1 from Debian unstable, but that has some dependencies (libc6) that are currently incompatible with my mostly Debian testing environment so I will wait to try that out until the libc6 version currently in unstable gets promoted to testing. Meanwhile, I will only bring up the xyshow issue on the cairo list. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
