Re: [Plplot-general] png poor quality

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2007-07-18 06:01-0400 bp...@ne... wrote:

> Alan wrote:
> Now to deal with the specifics of your question, our best demonstration of
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> examples 6 and 7 (and also example 23 at
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> http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/demo23.php which shows a subset of
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> the large number of unicode mathematical symbol possibilities that are
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> accessible with TrueType fonts) was done with the Debian ttf-freefont
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> package which is described as follows:
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>
>
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> Thanks Alan! The Debian ttf-freefont is great and now, I can access to the same table than with
> the Hershey font (and plplot looks nicer than ever)
>
> A last issue: the alignment of the font seems different (by default) than with Hershey: the symbols
> do not seem to be center in the $,$y position and the x/ylabel of written over the ticks.... ?
> (this is a tiny effect)

Do you the identical alignment as shown at
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/?

If you do get the same alignment as at the SourceForge examples, then you
have achieved the GD "state of the art" at this time.  I do agree the
Hershey fonts are better aligned than TTF ones, but nobody has yet figured
out how to improve the alignment of the TTF fonts.

Alan
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