Thanks, Alan, On Feb 23, 2010, at 14:48 , Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> No. -dev xwin is pure Hershey (just like all our traditional > devices). > > To explain further, we had a first generation of unicode font > support via > plfreetype.c (e.g., gd.c which is now deprecated because of the > limitations > of this approach), but now we are relying on external libraries > (e.g., the > pango/cairo stack of libraries and Qt stack of libraries at our run > time and > the svg libraries after our run time when the svg file result with > embedded > unicode strings is displayed) to properly support unicode fonts. > The only > non-unicode and non-Hershey font we support are the Type 1 fonts > for the > ps.c device driver, but those are interfaced internally with a > unicode to > type 1 translation table so the overall ps.c font approach is > similar to > that done for the svg, cairo, and qt devices, but with the very > limited set > of glyphs that are available for Type 1 fonts. Are the "USE_FREETYPE" and other related cmake variables all deprecated along with the gd driver? Are there any other bitmapped dirvers that use it? >> Is there any way to query the driver's unicode capability (or lack >> thereof)? > > Yes. > > softw...@raven> grep dev_unicode drivers/* > drivers/aqt.c: pls->dev_unicode = 1; /* wants text as > unicode */ Is there a way API to query this info via the? It seems like it would save some confusion if x23c bailed out with an informative message if/when it detects that the user has selected a non-unicode aware driver. Thanks, Dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
