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

[Benjamin Lindner]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> 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

Ok, possibly dumb question: How do I get the 4.4 sources?
I'm doing a "cvs update -d" from the sourceforge sources as recommended 
on the gnuplot website. Correct?

For inclusion in an octave binary a snapshot would be good, because it 
makes support easier if there is a well-defined version bundled.
I'm not a cvs expert, not even a mildly experienced user. I know from 
svn and mercurial, that there is a unique version or revision which 
characterizes the source tree, so if I check out today and compile a 
binary, I can tell which version of the source tree was used, even 
without a dedicated snapshot.
Is there an equivalent in cvs?

benjamin