If I recall correctly, running the exact directions buried in x24c.c used to work fine for -dev png (and other plfreetype-related devices) but that no longer seems to be the case.
(TTFDIR=/usr/share/fonts/truetype ; PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SANS_FONT=$TTFDIR/arphic/bkai00mp.ttf PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SERIF_FONT=$TTFDIR/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf PLPLOT_FREETYPE_MONO_FONT=$TTFDIR/ttf-devanagari-fonts/lohit_hi.ttf PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SCRIPT_FONT=$TTFDIR/unfonts/UnBatang.ttf PLPLOT_FREETYPE_SYMBOL_FONT=$TTFDIR/ttf-bengali-fonts/JamrulNormal.ttf c/x24c -dev png -o test.png) produces illegible results on my Debian testing system with the suggested ttf-unfonts-core, ttf-arphic-bkai00mp, ttf-devanagari-fonts, and ttf-bengali-fonts Debian font packages installed. OTOH, if you specify -drvopt smooth=0, then the results are acceptable (the glyphs are slightly ragged due to the lack of smoothing compared to the corresponding pngcairo result, but they are perfectly legible). The strange thing is the bad smoothed unicode issue for plfreetype related devices (I also checked wxwidgets which acts similarly) only occurs for example 24. The default smooth=1 looks good for examples 23 and 26 (which also use unicode). Does anybody have a clue what plfreetype change might have caused this issue? I don't think we should delay the release for this plfreetype issue, but if anybody has a quick fix, that would be great. 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: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
