[Plplot-devel] 5.9.6 is now available

2010-06-05 Thread Hazen Babcock
Hello, Version 5.9.6 of PLplot is now available. Improvements since 5.9.5 include making PLplot aware of LC_NUMERIC locale, linear gradients, a cairo windows driver, custom axis labeling, universal coordinate transforms and support for arbitrary storage of 2D user data, As always: (1) Please r

Re: [Plplot-devel] Slow symbol rendering on some devices

2010-06-05 Thread Steve Schwartz
Hi Werner, On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 20:12 +0100, Werner Smekal wrote: > For so much symbols I would suggest to use the hershey fonts for > symbols > with > > pls->dev_hrshsym = 1; > > text will be drawn still nicely. But I'm sure qtwidget should be as > fast > as xcairo or close to, so if the 7.5 s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Slow symbol rendering on some devices

2010-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Steve: On 2010-06-05 20:01+0100 Steve Schwartz wrote: > Hi Werner, > > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 20:12 +0100, Werner Smekal wrote: >> For so much symbols I would suggest to use the hershey fonts for >> symbols >> with >> >> pls->dev_hrshsym = 1; >> >> text will be drawn still nicely. But I'm sure

[Plplot-devel] Link to nowhere on PLplot home page

2010-06-05 Thread Jerry
The link from the PLplot home page http://plplot.sourceforge.net/ from PLplot Release 5.9.6 doesn't go anywhere. The link is http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=0 and the page loaded says ERROR No Forum Chosen. Jerry --

Re: [Plplot-devel] 5.9.6 is now available

2010-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2010-06-05 14:47-0400 Hazen Babcock wrote: > Version 5.9.6 of PLplot is now available. Thanks, Hazen, for your ongoing great work as our release manager, and thanks to everybody else who contributed to this release. Alan __ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliat

[Plplot-devel] Bad links to our latest news on our website

2010-06-05 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Werner: Our news feed on plplot.sf.net continues to have troubles. The URL's of the individual news items have been bad for a long time which gives an immediate and obvious "black eye" for our project, and I was reminded of this again today when checking out the latest iteration of our website