On 2009-04-23 14:28-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Alan W. Irwin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> ext-cairo-test.c was written by Hazen a year ago. It builds without issues, >> but it also demonstrates there is an important bug with the extcairo device. >> No text appears in the test.ps result, and there is a status code of 127 >> returned by ext-cairo-test. Hazen, the bugfix is not release critical >> because extcairo is turned off by default, but if you find the fix before >> the release, you should also turn on extcairo by default. Also, once the fix >> has been implemented an upgraded demo using a lot more of the plotting >> capabilities of PLplot would be nice. > > The attached patch should fix the extcairo text rendering bug. The > issue is/was that there was some extcairo-specific code which had not > been updated for the next text rendering system. With this patch the > extcairo driver now falls back on the plD_esc_cairo for any > non-extcairo specific cases, similar to what is done for the xcairo > driver. > > If this works for others as well I would be quite happy to see the > extcairo driver turned on by default. I have found it quite useful in > my own projects.
Thanks, Hez, for the fix which works here as well. I have committed your change and also turned on extcairo by default (revision 9835). 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
