On 2009-02-26 16:43+0100 Werner Smekal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> if you run example 28 and look at the last page you'll see that the texts 
> "Arbitrarily displaced secondary X-axis label" and "Arbitrarily displaced 
> secondary Y-axis label" are misaligned (see also attached x28_xwin.png). This 
> misalignment can not be seen with other drivers (wxwidgets, xcairo) which use 
> their own font handling. But also if the font handling is turned off (-dev 
> wxwidgets -drvopt text=0) and the hershey-Fonts are used, the alignment is ok 
> for e.g. the wxWidgets driver (see attached x28_wx.png). The latter fact is 
> kind of strange, since the plplot library takes care of the Hershey Font and 
> not the driver itself.

If you carefully compare the two plots by "blinking" between them the
twisted secondary X and Y axis labels for x28_xwin.png are really obvious.
Furthermore, the primary X and Y axis labels show a small amount of twisting
as well. The Z axis labels appear to be okay.

However, I cannot confirm the issue on my Linux (Debian Lenny) platform.
-dev xwin produces properly alligned results as does -dev png -drvopt text=0
(which also uses the same core library code path to render the Hershey fonts
independent of device driver).

So it appears there is some platform-dependent issue with -dev xwin.

What platform were you using?  Do you get good results on OS X and/or Linux?

Alan
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