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

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Schwartz
I have sent the svg of x01c using svn 8892 to the scribus bug list to see if they could help in getting scribus to import it correctly. The response was swift, and that it opens up nearly ok in scribus 1.3.3.12 (I was running 1.3.3.4), which is nearly the last in the stable 1.3.3 chain, and looks

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

2008-10-15 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-15 10:13+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: Alan, I've tested the latest svg support on by Ubuntu systems and the report is firefox 3.0.3 - works fine now. Excellent! display (imagemagick 6.3.7) - nearly ok with RSVG driver. alignment is very slightly too far to the right and touches

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

2008-10-15 Thread Andrew Ross
Alan, I've tested the latest svg support on by Ubuntu systems and the report is firefox 3.0.3 - works fine now. display (imagemagick 6.3.7) - nearly ok with RSVG driver. alignment is very slightly too far to the right and touches axis. With internal SVG driver label alignment and circle

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

2008-10-12 Thread Hazen Babcock
On Oct 11, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: There is nothing like preparing a bug report to make you examine your assumptions. My assumptions turned out to be wrong about our -dev svg results, but that is fine because it means I am making some progress. I was in the process of

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

2008-10-12 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-12 12:05-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: On Oct 11, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: [...]The first bug I discovered today was the code incorrectly wrote indentation white space and line end characters (used for human-readability formatting of the xml file but _not_ part of the

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

2008-10-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
There is nothing like preparing a bug report to make you examine your assumptions. My assumptions turned out to be wrong about our -dev svg results, but that is fine because it means I am making some progress. I was in the process of preparing a simple test case for a librsvg bug report (which I

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 look and

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

2008-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-05 22:09-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:28 PM, Hazen Babcock wrote: On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:39 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: (*) Examples 9 and 21: clipping not implemented yet as illustrated by the first page of these examples. I got this to work, but it takes

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

2008-10-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Steve Schwartz wrote: Also, I'm still having difficulty printing a postscript plot on a page; it looks fine in ghostscript (with the view set to A4 or Letter paper), but prints to a ps printer blown up by a factor ~4.8. Passing through eps2eps, epstopdf, or any other filter generates a file that

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

2008-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-05 22:36-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:18 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: These three issues will not affect my on-going svg PLplot logo work, but it is obviously important to solve them to make -dev svg a complete and outstanding device driver. (1) Subscripts were

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

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hi Arjen, On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:51 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: I have expressed myself somewhat inaccurately: the command by which I send the PostScript files to the printer is simply lp. The printer driver that then gets invoked will do all manner of things to get the file printed, but

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

2008-10-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Steve Schwartz wrote: Hi Arjen, My observation is that one ought to be able to send the postscript file directly to a postscript printer (I've tried both HP and Xerox printers). Passing it through a filter (eps2eps, or whatever - most/all of which amount to passing it through ghostscript) risks

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

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Schwartz
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 13:48 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: I do not know if this will be a disappointment for you, but when I printed via the humble lp command on an OCE printer we have here, it comes out just fine. I am not sure about the margins (some of my colleagues are rather keen on getting

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

2008-10-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Steve Schwartz wrote: Hi Arjen, On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 12:51 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: I have expressed myself somewhat inaccurately: the command by which I send the PostScript files to the printer is simply lp. The printer driver that then gets invoked will do all manner of things to

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

2008-10-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Steve Schwartz wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 13:48 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: I do not know if this will be a disappointment for you, but when I printed via the humble lp command on an OCE printer we have here, it comes out just fine. I am not sure about the margins (some of my colleagues

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

2008-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-06 13:24+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 13:48 +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: I do not know if this will be a disappointment for you, but when I printed via the humble lp command on an OCE printer we have here, it comes out just fine. I am not sure about the margins

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

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew Ross
Just to add my 2p in. Following all tested on Ubuntu Hardy with rev 8859. Firefox 3.0.3 - Alignment on labels is way off with lettering shifted to the left. Labels are clipped. Konqueror 3.5.9 - Alignment on labels is ok, but points appear as ?. Display (imagemagick 6.3.7) - Alignment on

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

2008-10-06 Thread Alan W. Irwin
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 quite a bit more of the svg 1.1 spec. It may be that this is where the

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

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Schwartz
I've been experimenting with the svg driver (using svn 8854). Here are some observations: inkscape will now open the svg generated from x01c, though all the labels and text show up displaced to the left. But it renders fine in firefox, konqueror, and virtually everything I've tried scribus (v

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

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Schwartz
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 13:14 +0100, Steve Schwartz wrote: inkscape will now open the svg generated from x01c, though all the labels and text show up displaced to the left. And the plot symbols are also shifted! Actually, the plot symbols don't show up in Firefox 2.0, and show up as ? in

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

2008-10-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Steve: Thanks for your tests of revision 8854. On 2008-10-05 13:14+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: I've been experimenting with the svg driver (using svn 8854). Here are some observations: inkscape will now open the svg generated from x01c, though all the labels and text show up displaced to

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

2008-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-09-30 10:07+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: Taking this as a hint, I can edit the -dev svg to get it to open in inkscape and konqueror by deleting the leading document tag (and it's close at the end of the file). Hi Steve: I fixed that bug last week when I started my svg effort. So I am

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

2008-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-09-29 22:39-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: In general, our svg results look really good with [Debian testing] firefox, and I believe -dev svg produces everything I need to generate a good-looking SVG PLplot logo using PLplot itself, but there are still some outstanding issues that I

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

2008-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-04 16:38-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: In sum, we have made some good svg device-driver progress as of revision 8853, but I still have two issues I still need to look at (ex. 6 missing lines[...] This was an easy one. It was caused by example 6 drawing exactly to the maximum possible X

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

2008-10-04 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-04 18:19-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: I am still working on one svg issue (4 out of 6 missing subpage plots for page 2 of example 21). Two for the price of one! Solving the coordinate overflow issue solved this one as well. I wish they were all this easy. So I am done with the svg

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

2008-10-03 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-10-03 21:57-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: Unfortunately I think that we even need to specify which OS and/or which version of Firefox should be used to get good results. I've attached two quite different, at least in terms of text placement, versions of example1, one from debian w/

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

2008-10-01 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hi Alan, On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 08:03 -0700, Alan W. Irwin wrote: I fixed that bug last week when I started my svg effort. So I am very interested in your experiments, but please use the latest version of PLplot from svn trunk to access all the svg bug fixes I have been making. I know you

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

2008-09-30 Thread Maurice LeBrun
Interestingly, the following article on SVG editors just appeared on linuxtoday.com today. http://www.linux.com/feature/148630 -- Maurice LeBrun - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

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

2008-09-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-09-30 23:24-0500 Maurice LeBrun wrote: Interestingly, the following article on SVG editors just appeared on linuxtoday.com today. http://www.linux.com/feature/148630 Yeah, I just finished reading that 5 minutes before I saw your post. There was one negative point in there that I

[Plplot-devel] Status of the svg device driver

2008-09-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
I would like to use SVG format to produce a PLplot logo, but the svgcairo device (in fact all cairo devices because this appears to be a libcairo issue or libcairo backend issue) have some issues with antialiasing of filled surfaces that produce some ugly looking artifacts on those surfaces, in