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) Subscri

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with latest gfortran version under MinGW

2008-10-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2008-10-02 22:04+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: Hello, I am picking up the issue of gfortran 4.3.2 under MinGW again. I have modified the source code (the import/export stuff) so that the libraries are created appropriately, but while building the examples, I run into the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Problem with latest gfortran version under MinGW

2008-10-06 Thread Arjen Markus
Alan W. Irwin wrote: > On 2008-10-06 09:29+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: > >> Alan W. Irwin wrote: >> >>> On 2008-10-02 22:04+0200 Arjen Markus wrote: >>> >>> Hello, I am picking up the issue of gfortran 4.3.2 under MinGW again. I have modified the source code (the import/export stu

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

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Schwartz
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 degrading it through a r

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 printe

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) r

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 getti

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 g

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 are

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 marg

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 labels

[Plplot-devel] Adding Ada to the list of compatible languages

2008-10-06 Thread Jerry
The main PLplot page, in the second paragraph, lists C, C++, D, Fortran, Java Octave, Python, Perl and Tcl as languages from which PLplot can be used, but not Ada. I wonder if we could add Ada to the list since it is now "Postscript correct" relative to the C examples. I do appreciate that

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 > obs

Re: [Plplot-devel] Adding Ada to the list of compatible languages

2008-10-06 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if we could add Ada to the > list since it is now "Postscript correct" relative to the C examples. Could the same be done for OCaml? Hez -- Hezekiah M. Carty Graduate Research Assistant University of Maryland Departmen