On 2008-12-15 10:14-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > Alan, > > I've checked and the problem with example 2 and the gif driver is that > gif's only support 256 colours. Turning on freetype fonts (with > anti-aliasing) and using a large numbers of colours in the example > quickly exhausts that, hence all the warnings. You do generate an image, > but the colours look a little odd. If you disable freetype fonts (-drvopt > text=0) then everything works. This is not so much a bug as a gif > "feature" so there is probably little we can do about it except disable > freetype fonts by default. > > Any thoughts?
That example uses only 116 explicit colours so it is well under the gif limit if you don't use antialiasing. Indeed, I just tried c/x02c -dev gif -drvopt smooth=0 -o test.gif -fam and it gives reasonable results (aside from a text positioning issue). So I will modify plplot-test.sh.in appropriately to turn off antialiasing for gif unless you beat me to it. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
