Re: Example of chage of snapshot of image demo before and after Nov. 06 [was Side effect of change src/wxterminal/gp_cairo.c ...]

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

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> > http://www.geocities.jp/tmgpltwin/Files/Files.html#0037
>
> I see what you mean.
> I suppose it is a side-effect of requesting the freetype back
> end rather than the win32 back end.

> > I think that default window size is better to be expanded in y
> > direction.
>
> The window size in your screenshot is the same as I see under
> linux. The difference is the vertical space allocated for each
> text string. The program is reserving too much space for each
> line of text, presumably because pango_layout_get_extents() is
> reporting too large a vertical extent. I am guessing that it is
> another bug in the Windows implementation of pango.

This part of the image demo looks pretty bad to me on Linux (in a
setup where most things that use FreeType + fontconfig look fine).
This is using current CVS gnuplot (with the new code in gp_cairo.c
inactive, since WIN32 is not defined).  Sample screenshot at

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

Allin Cottrell