Re: [Plplot-devel] Cannot compile drivers with Visual Studio 2008 (msvc9)

2008-10-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Robert: > > Thanks for your report for revision 8861, the latest svn trunk version > of PLplot. > > Arjen, I have a question for you below. > > On 2008-10-07 17:40+0200 Robert Pollak wrote: > > > [...] > >> cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ^ >> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=%BUILD_T

Re: [Plplot-devel] Cannot compile drivers with Visual Studio 2008 (msvc9)

2008-10-07 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Robert: Thanks for your report for revision 8861, the latest svn trunk version of PLplot. Arjen, I have a question for you below. On 2008-10-07 17:40+0200 Robert Pollak wrote: [...] > cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ^ > -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=%BUILD_TYPE% ^ > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=insta

[Plplot-devel] Cannot compile drivers with Visual Studio 2008 (msvc9)

2008-10-07 Thread Robert Pollak
Hello, I am using Windows XP, the Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition and cmake-2.6.2. I am trying to build the current PLPlot trunk (revision 8861) with the following batch file in the PLPlot root folder: REM start of script echo on setlocal call "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Com

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the svg device driver

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Schwartz
Arjen, On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:54 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: > Can you indicate the difference with the ordinary > ps driver? (Or would that give a completely different file?) For sure it would give a completely different file, just as the pscairo and ps drivers within plplot give very different

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the svg device driver

2008-10-07 Thread Arjen Markus
Steve Schwartz wrote: >Dear All, > >For your amusement, I attach a zipped archive with ps and svg files that >were created by the plplot Qt driver we are working on. Qt has in-built >routines to draw to a range of file formats (including I think png, >tiff, jpeg plus ps and svg). > >The ps files l

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the svg device driver

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Schwartz
If it helps anyone, commenting out the line XScale YScale scale from the /@SetPlot definition (a) make ghostscript render only the top left portion (exactly the portion I see when I print the original file) and (b) has no effect on the printer output. So it looks like my printer(s) ignore the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the svg device driver

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hi Alan, I've tried all your experiments and they all fail. The pscairo file continues to behave if advertised as an eps, and the psc fails when advertised as a ps. Trying to add more page information doesn't help. None of this surprises me, as I suspect the problem lies in the interpretation of

Re: [Plplot-devel] Status of the svg device driver

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Ross
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:29:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Hi Andrew: > > Thanks for your report on the (sad) state of affairs for the svg viewers > available to you. > > On 2008-10-06 22:38+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > >N.B. The version of the gecko layout engine in firefox 3.0 implements > >