Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:35:06PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: On 2007-11-29 16:04-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Meanwhile, I will only bring up the xyshow issue on the cairo list. When I did more thorough homework on this xyshow issue including looking at the libcairo code, it eventually boiled

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-12-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-12-01 08:58- Andrew Ross wrote: Alan, I can confirm that the special definefont line definefont does not appear in my Ubuntu generated plots. I do not have access to the debian testing plots here at home to check them I'm afraid. I can confirm that I did not see any errors with

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:18:17AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: Alan, for now could you send me (off list) on of the images that is producing the problems with definefont. I'll check it out on my recent gs to see if it is gs that has fixed it, or merely down to different cairo versions. I have

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-29 16:04-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: Meanwhile, I will only bring up the xyshow issue on the cairo list. When I did more thorough homework on this xyshow issue including looking at the libcairo code, it eventually boiled down to a one-line cairo patch which I submitted to the cairo

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:59:21PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: My tests showed there was an additional kind of error: /typecheck in definefont (examples 7, 23, and 24) Here is the typical gv error message: Error: /typecheckGPL Ghostscript 8.56: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-29 16:33- Andrew Ross wrote: My postscript does containt this /CairoFont-3-0 command for these 3 examples (and only these 3 examples). It renders correctly, and without warnings, on my gs which is newer than yours. This one we might be able to put down to ghostscript errors. Do

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:53:56AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: On 2007-11-26 20:58- Andrew Ross wrote: Hi Alan, My test results for pscairo. Ubuntu edgy libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to the point of being

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Here is the score now: pango 1.14.5 and cairo 1.2.4 are fine except for tiny text (Andrew). pango 1.15.5 and cairo 1.2.6 are fine (Hazen PPC/64). *pango 1.16.4 and cairo 1.4.6 are fine (Alan Intel/32). *pango 1.16.4 and cairo 1.4.6 have major issues (Alan Intel/64). pango 1.16.5 and cairo

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: In the course of doing a lot of research on this problem, I just made a most interesting discovery. The problem has nothing to do with gcc version, pango/cairo stack, or whether the system is Intel or PPC or 32-bit or 64-bit.

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: Andrew, to pursue this further I think we need to find out exactly what in x03.pscairo is causing modern gv/gs to choke. For Debian testing, here is the current ghostscript error message (which you get by using the --noquiet option

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-28 22:05- Andrew Ross wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: Andrew, to pursue this further I think we need to find out exactly what in x03.pscairo is causing modern gv/gs to choke. For Debian testing, here is the current ghostscript error message

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-26 20:58- Andrew Ross wrote: Hi Alan, My test results for pscairo. Ubuntu edgy libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to the point of being unreadable. Ubuntu gutsy (latest stable) libpango1.0-dev

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-27 Thread Hazen Babcock
On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Thanks for those test results. So here is the summary of our combined results so far for pscairo: pango 1.14.5 and libcairo 1.2.4 are fine except for tiny text (Andrew). pango 1.16.4 and libcairo 1.4.6 are fine (Alan/32). pango

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-27 22:26-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Thanks for those test results. So here is the summary of our combined results so far for pscairo: pango 1.14.5 and libcairo 1.2.4 are fine except for tiny text (Andrew). pango 1.16.4 and

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-26 Thread Andrew Ross
Hi Alan, My test results for pscairo. Ubuntu edgy libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to the point of being unreadable. Ubuntu gutsy (latest stable) libpango1.0-dev 1.18.3-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.4.10-1ubuntu4 A large number of