Hi! I'm considering including Plplot into wxMaxima (crossplatform Maxima gui based on wxWidgets) as a plotting library. I have successfully built the examples and tried them on Mac OS X. I have some questions regarding that:
1) I would like to include all the necessary sources of plplot in wxmaxima source, so the user doesn't need to compile the plplot himself (so plplot is built when wxmaxima is built). The features wxMaxima would benefit most from are (in order of importance): -antialiased drawing in some form or another, preferably wxwidgets -png export (preferably looks the same as in application - perhaps wxwidgets can do that) -pdf export -svg export What would be the minimum of needed sources and libraries to enable that features? Particulary I would like to avoid dependance on external libraries (such as qt ..) as much as possible to keep wxMaxima easy to build and small. I know, plplot can use wxWidgets for antialiased drawing - no need for AGG or cairo - which is great. What about exports to png, svg and pdf? 2) Speed of drawing - I would like to be able to resize and rotate my plots interactivly (but not necessarily drawing the 'inbetween' frames of rotation or resize, just the ending frame). From running examples on (13) wxwidgets 'terminal' I've noticed it's extremely slow, compared to xwindows 'terminal'... Is this a direct result of using wxGC for drawing or can it be made faster? Is QT or cairo faster? 3) Out of curiosity - what's the point of svg cairo and svgqt, pdfqt ... if they do the same thing with subpar results? What's the reason for providing svgqt, when there is a default svg, nonreliant on QT libs, available at all times? Is svgqt or svgcairo terminal in some ways better than 'svg'? Regards, Ziga Lenarcic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing 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-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
