Re: pdfcairo terminal; seams between bars in the colorbox

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

> I have never looked at the code for evince or mupdf. Okular and Evince
> both claim to use the poppler library for rendering pdf files, so I am
> a bit surprised thay behave differently. Is it possible that the
> installations you tested were linked against different versions of
> poppler?

I'm using the vanilla debian builds. Neither uses poppler today, for
what it's worth.


>> What if we change the code from
>>   calling term->filled_polygon() for each colorbox slice
>> to
>>   calling term->image() once for the whole colorbox
>
> In the case of pdf output it would mean going through the cairo
> library either way. I wouldn't necessarily expect a difference.

I would expect it to fix things because gnuplot images look good with
all pdf readers. Can you think of reasons such a patch wouldn't be a
good idea? The fact that it wasn't done this way to begin with makes me
think there's some reason.

Thanks