Re: pdf library for gnuplot

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Xiaodong Zhou wrote:

> I checked the previous discussion about pdf lib. It seems to
> me that the pdflib from http://www.pdflib.com cannot be used
> for gnuplot. 

But it can!  We just don't see that we can distribute precompiled binaries
with PDFLib built in, given the terms of the PDFLib Lite licence.

> There is a another pdf lib from http://www.fastio.com/.
> Here is the quote for its license, 
> 
> "
>  ClibPDF is a library of ANSI C functions, distributed as source code,
> for creating PDF files directly via C language programs without relying
> on any Adobe Acrobat(R) tools and related products.  It is free for
> private, non-profit use, but a commercial license is required for
> for-profit applications"

That's considerably more restrictive than the PDFlib Lite license.  If we
can't use PDFlib Lite, we certainly can't use a library with the above
terms.

> Could it be possible to bundle it with gnuplot? or the gnuplot
> supports only pdf lib from http://www.pdflib.com?

As of now, only PDFLib is supported.

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