Re: CVS version: Black background default for PNG

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Sunday 06 September 2009 02:54:34 pm Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 06 September 2009, Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> > Apologies.
> >
> > I simply used:
> > 	set terminal png
> > which I assume means the GD terminal.
>
> Not necessarily, but in your case - yes, since you are linked against
> libgd.
>
> > There have been no changes to my gnuplot
> > config scripts, that would explain the observed
> > change in behavior.
> >
> > Here is the output from ldd (slightly trimmed):
> >         libgd.so.2 => /usr/lib64/libgd.so.2 (0x00007fd16cf65000)
>
> Unfortunately, that is non-informative.
> Could you please look in wherever-it-is/gd.h to see what the actual
> version is?  2.0.35 is common, 2.0.36 is bleeding edge.

#define GD_VERSION_STRING "2.0.36"

But I have seen different behavior (white default bg)
before with this same GD lib. I have not updated my
Linux install in a year, but have rebuilt gnuplot from
CVS several times since then. 

> >
> > In other words, I see the black background only
> > for non-transparent backgrounds.
>
> Email me one of these png images so that I can see what it claims to be.

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