Re: Proposal: Saving graphs from Qt and wxt terminals

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Friday, 24 October, 2014 15:17:01 Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
> One thing to be careful of is the fact that saving to PDF (which is 
> certainly welcome in my opinion because the first word of PDF means 
> "portable") in the Qt terminal isn't using the PDF terminal.  There are 
> no colors in the PDF output via Qt

Weird.  I get a perfectly normal full-color PDF.

> Do we want as setup in which the interactive  terminals use the 
> PDF terminal, or a setup in which the interactive  terminals use their 
> own custom PDF output?

I have been thinking that it would be nice to have build options for
two flavors of gnuplot.

gnuplot+Qt
	no dependence on cairo or wxt
	svg pdf png output via the Qt libraries
	default terminal is qt

gnuplot+wxt
	no dependence on Qt libraries
	pdf png output via cairo  (can it do svg?)
	default terminal is wxt

Either of these options could also do away with dependence on libgd,
so long as people can live without gif/jpeg output.

Given that it looks like wxt3 is causing problems for people who are
building on bleeding edge linux systems (or building on OSX),
the qt-only build option could become important.

	Ethan