On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Steve Schwartz wrote: > Is is just me, or have others noticed that plot symbol 17, which is > supposed to be a filled circle, is a small square using the > unicode-based drivers (at least qt and cairo which are the ones I > have) > but are stroke-filled circles using Hershey drivers
And they vastly blow up the size of a Postscript file with lots of plotted points. I hate them. And the "circles" are merely few-sided polygons--more wasted strokes. Jerry > (xwin, tk, etc. > including setting plsc->dev_hrshsym = 1 for the qt and cairo drivers)? > > This isn't easy to see in Example 06 until you magnify the result (you > can grow the qt window on screen), but easy to see if you code a > trivial > example. > > In exploring, I have also discovered that the qt driver doesn't treat > > plsc->dev_hrshsym = 1 > > and > > plsc->dev_unicode = 0 > > in the same way. Using the latter in a loop with symbol 18 (filled > star) > crashes sample code, whereas the former runs as expected. Sorry, I > know > I should send some sample code (and I can send my hacked x01c if > someone > wants it) and some output from a debugger, but I'm pressed for time. > > Regards, > Steve > > -- > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Professor Steven J Schwartz Phone: +44-(0)20-7594-7660 > Head, Space & Atmospheric Physics Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-7772 > The Blackett Laboratory E-mail: s.schwa...@imperial.ac.uk > Imperial College London Office: Huxley 6M67A > London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Web: www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~sjs > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
