libgd update in the works

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

By the way,

libgd development has shifted to libgd.org, with Pierre Joye as
lead developer.  

File bug reports and "issues" via   http://bugs.libgd.org

We've been thrashing out issues of transparency and pattern-fill
support as they affect gnuplot, and I've fed in a patch to restore
use of the Adobe Symbol font for enhanced text (it worked in earlier
versions of libgd but is broken in the current libgd 2.0.33).  

Since both gnuplot and libgd are heading towards a significant new
release, this is a good time to revisit any long-standing problems
with functionality of the gnuplot gif/png/jpeg terminal drivers.  

It wouldn't hurt to add some wishlist items as well, perhaps taken
from our backlog of feature requests.  Support for color gradients
comes to mind, as well as embedded comments in the file header.
I've already pointed out that it would be nice to be able to 
specify a preferred character encoding. 

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742