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

[Ben A. <bpa...@ma...>]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 3:35 AM, Benjamin Lindner wrote:

> 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" <lin...@gm... 
>>>> > 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


I see the 4.4 branch does exist.

	http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuplot/gnuplot/term/x11.trm?view=log&pathrev=branch-4-4-stable

However, I'm a novice when it comes to selecting cvs branches. Using  
the command line, how to I select a particular branch?

... and is MAIN or GNUPLOT_BETA the default branch for development?

Ben

p.s. I've cc'd the gnuplot mail-list. We should remove that once the  
cvs questions are answered.