Re: pngcairo performance on Windows

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

> I have a cvs version of the gnuplot in which the pngpango
> terminal is available. However, I myself does not use bitmap
> based terminal (In case of bitmap graph is required, I always
> use eps term and translate eps to png or jpeg).
>
> Please show me a script to relveal your problem.
> I'll try to test on my cvs version of gnuplot.

Thank you.  There's a gnuplot script (along with examples of PNG
output) at

http://www.wfu.edu/~cottrell/gptest/

(The script is pngtest.plt)

> Or you can try it by yourself, using my distribution of cvs
> versions of gnuplot at
>
> http://www.tatsuromatsuoka.com/gnuplot/Eng/winbin/

Thanks again, I'll see if I can test with your build.

My feeling is that the pngcairo terminal is basically much
preferable to the libgd-based png terminal, so it is worth
ensuring that pngcairo output is as good as it can be.

Allin Cottrell