On 2008-09-30 10:07+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: > Taking this as a hint, I can edit the -dev svg to get it to open in > inkscape and konqueror by deleting the leading <document> tag (and it's > close at the end of the file).
Hi Steve: I fixed that bug last week when I started my svg effort. So I am very interested in your experiments, but please use the latest version of PLplot from svn trunk to access all the svg bug fixes I have been making. I know you have used svn trunk before so I suspect that you just forgot to do an svn update or else you did not rebuild starting from an empty build tree. That update/rebuild may cure most of the problems you have encountered, but I am very interested in any that persist after that update for example 1. For example, that update will not cure the ImageMagick/librsvg X offset issues I commented on already. I am virtually positive that is a librsvg bug so I plan to make a really simple case, validate it at http://validator.w3.org (to make absolutely sure it is compliant with the svg standard), and send in a bug report to librsvg with screenshots of what you get with librsvg versus other standards compliant viewers. Hopefully, that will get some action. I should mention that figure 1 looks perfect here for firefox. For konqueror everything is fine for Figure 1 except for the circles used to mark points which it replaces by question marks because its ability to find non-standard glyphs amongst the system fonts is so poor. As I mentioned, I will be sending in a konqueror bug report on that issue. You mentioned you liked svg. I like it too because it produces such good-looking results (for good viewers like firefox, konqueror, and hopefully for imagemagic/librsvg soon), and it has the capability of being scaled without getting the artifacts associated with bitmap scaling. On top of that its xml output is really straightforward to understand; that was a big help in sorting out a number of the svg issues that I mentioned, and I am going to rely on being able to humanly parse the results to help me sort out the additional minor xml tag issues I will be working on today (for some figures, but not figure 1.) I have just checked specifically that figure 1 validates so every viewer that is svg 1.1 standards compliant and which has proper access to fonts should render it the same way, i.e., like firefox. 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
