On 2009-07-15 14:57-0400 Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > In the case of the wxGC driver, from looking at the driver source and > the plot output, I think the reason it works is that it does not do > any text clipping. The output from the wxwidgets driver with a > non-zero orientation seems to be the same as the xcairo output with > text clipping disabled. I am not familiar with the wxwidgets driver > though, so I may be misunderstanding this somewhat.
I agree with your conclusion. If you try a really large character size such as plschr(0., 3.) for example 1 and -dev wxwidgets, the upper titles overlap rather than getting clipped at the subpage boundary. (The lower titles have a different device-driver problem with offset, for some reason.) I am sure Werner will want to correct both the text clipping issue and the text displacement issues eventually, However, I don't view those issues as showstoppers since wxwidgets (wxGC) is not really mature yet in contrast to the qt, cairo, and svg devices which are our showcase devices. (BTW, I think wxwidgets has great potential to also become one of our showcase devices, but Werner may have to make his wxwidgets life much easier by throwing out the fundamental and agg modes and concentrating exclusively on wxGC. A similar test for plschr(0., 2.) shows -dev xwin and -dev psttfc do text clipping at the sub_page boundary. That is, under these conditions the lower titles are clipped rather than overlapped with each other. Both devices also work for the case when the -ori option is non-zero. -dev xwin does text clipping properly because Hershey fonts are simply drawn by the PLplot core where clipping of all drawing has long since been done properly. However, -dev psttf relies on the LASi library to help it render unicode fonts. So it definitely does the correct job of non-core driver-based text clipping at sub-page boundaries. 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
