Re: test of pngcairo on win32 by Allin Cottrell at 2009-11-06

[Tatsuro M. <tma...@ya...>]

--- Allin Cottrell <cot...@wf...> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> 
> > I have tested pngcairo on win32 by  Allin Cottrell at 2009-11-06.
> >
> > set term pngcairo
> > set title 'Title'
> > set out 'testpngcairo_ChangeLog20091106.png'
> > plot sin(x)
> > set out
> >
> > on win32 binaries on CVS trees at 2009-11-06 with change by by
> > Allin Cottrell
> >
> > The result is shown at
> > http://www.geocities.co.jp/tmgpltwin/Files/Files.html#0029
> > 0029 testpngcairo_ChangeLog20091106.png, 23,804 bytes, 2009-11-08
> 
> I notice that the font-rendering is not good in this PNG file.  I
> suspect that the FreeType + fontconfig backend is not being used
> in this case.  To get the benefit of the change in gp_cairo.c, the
> pango and cairo libraries must be built with support for
> fontconfig, and the DLLs for freetype, fontconfig and expat must
> all be present.  DLLs that work in this respect can be found at
> 
> http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
> 
> For testing purposes, it would be easy to put a debugging print
> statement into gp-cairo.c following line 703, to see if the
> FreeType backend is in fact activated.
> 
The above address is the same as I have used.

***************** Part of my post.
I am using cairo Libraries for MinGW from 
http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html
****************

However what I used the is not latest version. 
(Ex. Pango version of mine 1.24.5, latest 1.26.0)

I will update libraries and try the test again.

Regards

Tatsuro

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