Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-21 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thursday 17 Oct 2013 09:14:44 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2013-10-16 22:45-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > 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 > >> wi

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-19 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Werner: I have documented at https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/bugs/133 all the issues for -dev pdf that I spotted by looking at the standard examples results. I have tentatively assigned this bug to you since you are the originator of this code. But I also encourage other PLplot device experts

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-16 22:45-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > 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

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

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2013-10-13 10:48+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > By the way - and I've probably mentioned this before - I use pbuilder to > building the Debian unstable packages on a Ubuntu stable machine. You can do > the same with Debian stable. This works well and is much lighter weight than > installing a virtu

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-13 Thread Andrew Ross
On Friday 11 Oct 2013 18:26:59 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2010-07-29 07:56+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > Alan, > > > > I agree it is worth maintaining for a lightweight pdf solution. I'll look > > into packaging libharu for Debian. > > > > Andrew > > > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:21:03PM -0700, Al

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2013-10-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-29 07:56+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > > Alan, > > I agree it is worth maintaining for a lightweight pdf solution. I'll look > into packaging libharu for Debian. > > Andrew > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:21:03PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> [...]Andrew, would you be interested in packaging u

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2010-08-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-07-27 16:21-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]I have recentely fixed the example 24 > segfault for the pdf device (see > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2899339&group_id=2915&atid=102915). > That issue turned out ultimately to be caused by an upstream libharu > issue. You c

Re: [Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Ross
Alan, I agree it is worth maintaining for a lightweight pdf solution. I'll look into packaging libharu for Debian. Andrew On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:21:03PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > Andrew, there is a question for you at the end. > > I feel that the pdf device (originally developed by Werner

[Plplot-devel] The pdf device

2010-07-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Andrew, there is a question for you at the end. I feel that the pdf device (originally developed by Werner) is well worth maintaining. Although it doesn't have all the capabilities of pdfcairo or pdfqt, its only external dependency is libhpdf (provided by the libharu software package). That libra