Hi,
I justed added the wxpng device (needs still some work, disabled by
default, -DPLD_wxpng=ON needed to test) to the wxwidgets driver
(similar to the pdfcairo, pngcairo, etc. devices) since I figured out,
that's now quite an easy thing to do. Before I proceed with this work,
I would like to ask the PLplot developers about there opinion if I
should continue the work (on the wxpng device and other devices):
Disadvantages:
* This would be the third png device
* If all images devices planned are included, we would have more
then 30 devices
* more testing ;)
Advantages:
* wxWidgets driver produces nicer output than gd driver
* on Mac OS X, Windows where libgd needs to be installed, we would
have another option to obtain a png device
* there are some image outputs available:
- bmp (not available for plplot in the moment)
- png
- jpeg
- pcx (not available for plplot in the moment)
- pnm (not available for plplot in the moment)
- tiff (not available for plplot in the moment)
so we would add further image output formats to plplot.
Reason I ask is, that I don't want to add something to the code, which
most of the developers don't want to be there.
Regards,
Werner
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Dr. Werner Smekal
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