Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-15 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Yeah, that seems like a good argument to me On 15 June 2015 at 03:30, Jim Dishaw wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2015, at 5:28 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: > > On 11 June 2015 at 17:57, Jim Dishaw wrote: > > > On Jun 11, 2015, at 4:06 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: > > Hi Jim > The documentation states that the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-14 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Jun 14, 2015, at 5:28 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: > > On 11 June 2015 at 17:57, Jim Dishaw > wrote: >> >>> On Jun 11, 2015, at 4:06 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jim >>> The documentation states that the provided text height will be in mm. >>> The user can s

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-14 Thread Phil Rosenberg
On 11 June 2015 at 17:57, Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Jun 11, 2015, at 4:06 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: >> >> Hi Jim >> The documentation states that the provided text height will be in mm. >> The user can set dpi with plspage so you should use the PLStream->xdpi >> and PLStream->ydpi to size your te

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-11 12:20-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Jun 11, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Alan W. Irwin >> wrote: >> >> On 2015-06-10 21:44-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: >> >>> [...]The driver does not support alpha blending or native gradient fills. >> I’m not sure if it is worthwhile to add these features in thi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 4:06 AM, Phil Rosenberg wrote: > > Hi Jim > The documentation states that the provided text height will be in mm. > The user can set dpi with plspage so you should use the PLStream->xdpi > and PLStream->ydpi to size your text in pixels. In case the user > hasn't set this yo

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Jim Dishaw
> On Jun 11, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > On 2015-06-10 21:44-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> [...]The driver does not support alpha blending or native gradient fills. > I’m not sure if it is worthwhile to add these features in this driver, > particular with a Direct2D version on the

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2015-06-10 21:44-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote: > [...]The driver does not support alpha blending or native gradient fills. I’m not sure if it is worthwhile to add these features in this driver, particular with a Direct2D version on the horizon. To Jim and Aaron: I didn't completely understand what J

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-11 Thread Phil Rosenberg
Hi Jim The documentation states that the provided text height will be in mm. The user can set dpi with plspage so you should use the PLStream->xdpi and PLStream->ydpi to size your text in pixels. In case the user hasn't set this you should use a sensible default. Of course the actual value will dep

Re: [Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-10 Thread Greg Jung
The recent addition to struct wingcc_dev: PLGraphicsIn gin; Serves no purpose (other than to break backwards compatibility) and shouldn't be propagated. It was only thrown in there because xwin.c has something similar. I would like to try wingdi.c but dont have a baseline file to run a patch ag

[Plplot-devel] Driver behavior questions and wingdi preview

2015-06-10 Thread Jim Dishaw
I have two questions on driver behavior that I’m trying to figure out. In the new wingdi driver I have implemented text rendering using the GDI interface. The current implementation honors the height specified in chrht. I have measured the heights both on the screen and when printed via wing