Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-12-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-12-01 09:01-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > My plan is to build a special libcairo with the latest git innovations in > PostScript support to see if all the libcairo problems dealing with the bad > font issues on Debian go away. If I get success, then this should further > motivate the cairo

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-12-01 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-12-01 08:58- Andrew Ross wrote: > Alan, I can confirm that the special definefont line ">> definefont" > does not appear in my Ubuntu generated plots. I do not have access to the > debian testing plots here at home to check them I'm afraid. > > I can confirm that I did not see any erro

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-12-01 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 05:35:06PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2007-11-29 16:04-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > > >Meanwhile, I will only bring up the xyshow issue on the cairo list. > > When I did more thorough homework on this xyshow issue including looking at > the libcairo code, it eventually b

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-29 16:04-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Meanwhile, I will only bring up the xyshow issue on the cairo list. When I did more thorough homework on this xyshow issue including looking at the libcairo code, it eventually boiled down to a one-line cairo patch which I submitted to the cairo lis

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Ross
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 08:18:17AM +, Andrew Ross wrote: > > Alan, for now could you send me (off list) on of the images that is > producing the problems with definefont. I'll check it out on my recent > gs to see if it is gs that has fixed it, or merely down to different > cairo versions. I

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-30 14:53- Andrew Ross wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:04:37PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: >> The "special" definefont pattern contains the line >> definefont pop >> >> where the >> is the end of the special dictionary (font) definition. >> >> For debian oldstable, this special

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:04:37PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2007-11-29 16:33- Andrew Ross wrote: > > > My postscript does containt this /CairoFont-3-0 command for these 3 examples > > (and only these 3 examples). It renders correctly, and without warnings, on > > my gs which is newer than

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 04:04:37PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2007-11-29 16:33- Andrew Ross wrote: > > >My postscript does containt this /CairoFont-3-0 command for these 3 > >examples > >(and only these 3 examples). It renders correctly, and without warnings, on > >my gs which is newer tha

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-29 16:33- Andrew Ross wrote: > My postscript does containt this /CairoFont-3-0 command for these 3 examples > (and only these 3 examples). It renders correctly, and without warnings, on > my gs which is newer than yours. This one we might be able to put down to > ghostscript errors.

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:59:21PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > > My tests showed there was an additional kind of error: > > /typecheck in definefont (examples 7, 23, and 24) > > Here is the typical gv error message: > > Error: /typecheckGPL Ghostscript 8.56: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 > i

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-28 22:05- Andrew Ross wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: >> >> Andrew, to pursue this further I think we need to find out exactly what in >> x03.pscairo is causing modern gv/gs to choke. For Debian testing, here is >> the current ghostscript error m

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > > Andrew, to pursue this further I think we need to find out exactly what in > x03.pscairo is causing modern gv/gs to choke. For Debian testing, here is > the current ghostscript error message (which you get by using the --noquiet > opt

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > In the course of doing a lot of research on this problem, I just made a most > interesting discovery. The problem has nothing to do with gcc version, > pango/cairo stack, or whether the system is Intel or PPC or 32-bit or > 64-bit. Inst

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
In the course of doing a lot of research on this problem, I just made a most interesting discovery. The problem has nothing to do with gcc version, pango/cairo stack, or whether the system is Intel or PPC or 32-bit or 64-bit. Instead, it is all about gv/gs version! If I use gv version 3.6.3/gs ve

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Here is the score now: pango 1.14.5 and cairo 1.2.4 are fine except for tiny text (Andrew). pango 1.15.5 and cairo 1.2.6 are fine (Hazen PPC/64). *pango 1.16.4 and cairo 1.4.6 are fine (Alan Intel/32). *pango 1.16.4 and cairo 1.4.6 have major issues (Alan Intel/64). pango 1.16.5 and cairo 1.4.

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Ross
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:53:56AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2007-11-26 20:58- Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > > Hi Alan, > > > > My test results for pscairo. > > > > Ubuntu edgy > > libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 > > libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 > > Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to th

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-27 22:26-0500 Hazen Babcock wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > >> Thanks for those test results. >> >> So here is the summary of our combined results so far for pscairo: >> >> pango 1.14.5 and libcairo 1.2.4 are fine except for tiny text (Andrew). >> >> p

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-27 Thread Hazen Babcock
On Nov 27, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Thanks for those test results. > > So here is the summary of our combined results so far for pscairo: > > pango 1.14.5 and libcairo 1.2.4 are fine except for tiny text > (Andrew). > > pango 1.16.4 and libcairo 1.4.6 are fine (Alan/32). > > pa

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2007-11-26 20:58- Andrew Ross wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > My test results for pscairo. > > Ubuntu edgy > libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 > libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 > Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to the point of being unreadable. > > Ubuntu gutsy (latest stable) > libpango1.0-dev 1.

Re: [Plplot-devel] The cairo device results for the Debian testing pango/cairo stack

2007-11-26 Thread Andrew Ross
Hi Alan, My test results for pscairo. Ubuntu edgy libpango1.0-dev 1.14.5-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.2.4-1ubuntu2 Plots appear ok, but the text is tiny to the point of being unreadable. Ubuntu gutsy (latest stable) libpango1.0-dev 1.18.3-0ubuntu1 libcairo2-dev 1.4.10-1ubuntu4 A large number of the