Re: [Plplot-devel] Cairo Driver Family

[Hazen B. <hba...@ma...>]

On Sep 2, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> Hazen seems reluctant to praise his cairo device driver so I will  
> do it for
> him.  :-)
>
> All issues I recently identified with the pscairo device have now  
> been fixed
> by Hazen, and in addition he has added driver options to allow  
> control of
> antialiasing for either/both text and graphics using the 4 levels of
> antialiasing hints allowed by libcairo.  I have recently been using  
> pngcairo
> and pscairo in my research work, and I think they have now reached  
> the stage
> where they are our premier PostScript and PNG devices.   
> Furthermore, xcairo
> gives (IMO) the best-looking immediate display of PLplot results  
> (although
> Hazen has planned a lot more work for this device to give it  
> interactive
> capability).

Er, well, I actually didn't have any real plans for further xcairo  
interactivity. Suggestions however are welcome.

-Hazen