I use xfig on cygwin and it appears to work ok. The unwritten (but still on my to-do list) OpenGL driver for PLplot could allow for a lighter weight solution in that the output image could be returned by the driver for conversion and saving to other formats.
--Chris On 6/20/2010 4:21 AM, Sisyphus wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Werner Smekal"<[email protected]> > > >>> No problems on Win32 *producing* xfig files - and they display fine on >>> linux. But how do we view these files on Windows ? >>> >> you could try inkscape or xfig on cygwin. >> > Yes, in the absence of any free "native" Win32 apps, that's probably the > best option. > I already have Cygwin, so it's just a matter of getting xfig installed > (which, for various reasons of dubious validity, is not quite as simple as > it ought to be :-) > I'm sure it can be done. > > >>> I would rather avoid all of that bloat >>> and build in png support utilising only png and zlib libraries (which I >>> already have) if possible. >>> >> There is only the gd driver, but this driver needs libgd - the gd driver >> is deprecated and the output quality is not compareable to pngcairo. >> >> > I was just looking at the gd driver (as I already have a static libgd, too) > and wondering how I might get it to build ... but if that driver is not up > to the standard of pngcairo, then I'll forget about that and go with > pngcairo instead. > > I was hoping to be able to include the png capability using static libs > only, but that's starting to look a bit unrealistic. Ultimately, I would > like to be able to provide a Perl/PDL binary that provides good plplot > support - and the production of such a binary is simplified if dynamic libs > are not involved. It's looking to me, however, that it will require far too > much work to achieve the desired plplot functionality using static libs - > and that I should just go with the dll's. > > Thanks Werner. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Plplot-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
