Re: plot issues -> favor pdfcairo [new changeset 2]

[Ethan Merritt]

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 07:46:08 Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> Ben Abbott wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 09:11AM, "Benjamin Lindner" 
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Ben Abbott wrote:
> >>> On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:02 AM, Benjamin Lindner wrote:
> >>>

> >>>> plot(0:0.1:10, sin(0:0.1:10), "@-;sin;", 0:0.1:10, cos(0:0.1:10), 
> >>>> "@-;cos;");
> >>>> print -depsc2 -debug:print.eps.log test.eps
> >>>> print -dpsc2 -debug:print.ps.log  test.ps
> >>>> print -dpng  -debug:print.png.log  test.png
> >>>> print -demf  -debug:print.emf.log  test.emf
> >>>> print -dpdf   -debug:print.pdf.log test.pdf
> >>>>
> >>>> I get now a pdfcairo and pngcairo output.
> >>>>
> >>>> However the pdfcairo output seems buggy, since it consists of 3 pages: 
> >>>> a blank first page, a second page with the expected graph and a blank 
> >>>> third page.
> >>>> Hmm, looks like a problem with gnuplot I guess.
> >>>>
> >>>> benjamin
> >>> What version of gnuplot are you running?
> >>>
> >>> I can run 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2,5 and 4.3.0 (current developers 
> >>> sources). If I can confirm the same behavior, I'll add 
> >>> "pdfcairo_is_broken" to __gnuplot_has_feature__ and switch to 
> >>> ghostrscript for that instance.
> >>>
> >> I have a 4.3.0 version, namely the CVS 2008-11-21 snapshot.
> >>
> >> benjamin
> > 
> > Ok. I'm running developers sources that are less than a week old. I don't 
> > see the problem you reported.
> > 
> 
> Probably it has been fixed in CVS.
> I hope there will be another gnuplot CVS snapshot, so I can include it 
> in a octave 3.2.1 release.

Yes. There was a cairo terminal bug fixed 10 May 2009.

If you generate a snapshot, please use the 4.4 pre-release sources rather than 
the 4.3 sources.
It is currently marked "alpha", but if you have a need for a more well-defined
version level we could bump that to "-rc1".

        Ethan