On 2010-03-19 19:45-0700 Jerry wrote: > I was just trying to use the Hershey symbol 850 which is a solid dot > and noticed with the cairo drivers that the wrong symbol is used. > Instead of a dot it is a weird character. The same result occurs for > all of the cairo devices. Does anybody else have this problem? I'm on > OS X.
No, it (Hershey symbol 850 on page 6 of example 7) looks fine here on Debian Lenny with -dev xcairo (and -dev qtwidget). On Linux, I would say you just need to install some more math fonts on your system that include the bullet operator. But cairo devices use a subset of the GTK+ stack that includes fontconfig to find system fonts, and in your case fontconfig might not be configured correctly. Another app that uses the GTK+ stack is gucharmap (which is an extremely useful GUI that displays all system fonts that are accessible with fontconfig). What does that show for unicode symbol 0x2219 = bullet operator (which is what Hershey 850 maps to (see fonts/plhershey-unicode.csv)? 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
