On 2013-09-06 19:59+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > Well, I missed one undefined routine: > cairo_win32_surface_create. It is simply not in the cairo > libraries that I installed via the Cygwin install program. > So I have left out the wincairo device and then it all > worked. > > Well, almost. I get warnings from pango: > > (process:5988): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, > expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', > script='common' > > (process:5988): Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a font, > expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', > script='latin' > > and the resulting pdf/png/... files contain empty boxes > rather than readable characters. > > As I could not find a way to install fonts specifically > for pango, I have posted a question on the Cygwin list. > Hopefully I have formulated it generally enough so that > non-PLplot-savvy members of that mailing list understand > what trouble I have ;).
Do you have the Cygwin fontconfig package installed? I am pretty sure that package would be essential for fonts to work properly with pango/cairo and the cairo device driver. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
