Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-11 18:26-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > However, I could not test that patch on the Debian version of the > library because for some reason "apt-src build" builds the debs > without obvious issues, but when those debs are installed, the > resulting libhpdf library does not define needed sy

[Plplot-devel] rpmlint issues

2013-10-16 Thread Orion Poplawski
I'm getting the following rpmlint issues with the Fedora plplot 5.9.10 package: plplot-doc.noarch: E: zero-length /usr/share/doc/plplot/html/plplotdoc-html.proc Left over from something? plplot-libs.x86_64: W: shared-lib-calls-exit /usr/lib64/libqsastime.so.0.0.1 exit@GLIBC_2.2.5 plplot-libs.

Re: [Plplot-devel] DXF File Driver Completed

2013-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Stephen: Thanks for your further comments. I have no knowledge of CAD other than what I can quickly read in wikipedia. Nevertheless, it sounds to me like you have completely answered my question on interoperability. I am not as satisfied with your response to my concerns about your new devic

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recent diff results for 32-bit Wine

2013-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-16 08:00- Arjen Markus wrote: > [...] I will have a look at the Python/Windows results, as I do not remember > ever seeing > such a long list of differing examples before. Thanks in advance for that. It will be a big help to see exactly which 32-bit platforms have this problem.

Re: [Plplot-devel] DXF File Driver Completed

2013-10-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-16 08:44-0700 Ferrell, Stephen wrote: > It doesn't rely on any external libraries nor does it produce a particular dialect.  I've tested it using AutoCAD12 all the way thru AutoCAD 2013  without problems. How does it do with non-autocad software? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/w

Re: [Plplot-devel] DXF File Driver Completed

2013-10-16 Thread Ferrell, Stephen
Hello Arjen, It doesn't rely on any external libraries nor does it produce a particular dialect.  I've tested it using AutoCAD12 all the way thru AutoCAD 2013  without problems.  The DXF format can handle some very complex objects but since this driver is based off of the HPGL and LJII driv

Re: [Plplot-devel] DXF File Driver Completed

2013-10-16 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Steve, that looks very nice. I do not use DXF files myself very often, but I know something about them. Some more or less trivial questions: -Is your driver dependent on any external library? (I guess not, but if it is, incorporating it may require extra work). -Does the dri

Re: [Plplot-devel] Recent diff results for 32-bit Wine

2013-10-16 Thread Arjen Markus
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:[email protected]] > > Good question. Actually extended precision (using 80-bits to store > intermediate > floating-point results) is just a part of the deal whenever you are running > software on > Intel hardware. It'