On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 04:52:56PM +0100, Werner Smekal wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > >wxwidgets works fine for me on Linux using e.g. > > > >./x24c -dev wxwidgets > > > >but I don't think I am getting the freetype backend since the fonts > >all > >work fine. > > If you don't have the AGG library installed, then you use the basic > backend here which by default uses it's own text processing routines > and not freetype. > > > > > >The message you are getting occurs when freetype is initialised. > >This is > >before any text plotting occurs and so shouldn't be as a result of my > >recent changes. If you force freetype but no anti-aliasing, i.e. > > > >./x24c -dev wxwidgets -drvopt smooth=0,freetype=1,text=0 > > > >then things break. Problem is in the logic in the driver code. It's > >different to gd.c. If you set smooth=0 then it will always fail with > >the > >message you have got. I've fixed this in svn. Can you try again? > > Ah, sorry. Actually I initialized smooth_text=-1 (although this should > be 1) in my last changes. My bad. But due this you found a bug in the > driver ;). Very well! > > So, sorry for the noise, it works now again also on Windows.
Excellent! Since the basic font handling is good, obviously the freetype enabled but anti-aliasing disabled case is not widely used! Actually as a result I've realised how good the fonts are in the wxwidget driver. I'm tempted to switch from xwin. Glad it all works again now. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
