Hi Hazen: I am in the middle of preparing an svg logo for PLplot for the new website so I have started playing with -dev svgcairo again. I vaguely recall some bad rendering issues (no text?) with this device with the old pango and cairo libraries on Debian sarge, but with the Debian lenny libraries I have now give results (including text) that look really good now. So that is really a nice advance for the svgcairo device that required absolutely no work on our part.
One issue I noticed from my svgcairo testing was that familying had not been enabled for this device. Therefore I have committed a change to cairo.c to enable that following what is done for the pngcairo case. This is just a "cut-and-paste" change with only a superficial understanding of the cairo.c code, but the change does seem to work well so that, for example, I can obtain all pages of example 8 using the -fam option for -dev svgcairo now. Even though everything appears to work, I would appreciate your review of my changes just to make sure I introduced no bugs. 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 the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
