Re: exposing cairo context from gnuplot

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

On Monday 07 September 2009, Richard Henwood wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been using Cairo (cairographics.org) a fair bit recently. I have
> not found a plotting library which is as mature as gnuplot.
> 
> I understand that the wxWidgets terminal uses cairo.
> 
> Has anyone considered the possibility of exposing the cairo context from
> within gnuplot/wxWidgets to the outside world?

The development version has two new drivers - pngcairo and pdfcairo,
the use the cairo library.  Not sure if that's what you meant.
Both drivers will be in the version 4.4 release candidate, which I
hope we can put out soonish.