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

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

On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, that's very close to what I see here with the default font.
The layout works much better if I say
   set term wxt ",7"

Perhaps more relevant, it also looks better if I force the wxt terminal
window size to 640x480 to match the bitmap terminals.

  set term wxt size 640,480

But is this a bug?  Or does it just indicate you shouldn't use the
default aspect ratio for drawing 2x2 multiplots?
Maybe the default font size should change dependent on the canvas size?