Re: pdf library for gnuplot

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> 
> 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.


You are right that pdflib can be compiled with gnuplot.

Even though PDFLib Lite license is less restrictive than ClibPDF lib,
the result is the same for gnuplot. Precompiled binary cannot have built-in
support for pdf.

There is another pdf lib with both GPL and LGPL license

http://www.stillhq.com/cgi-bin/getpage?area=panda

Could it be helpful?

Xiaodong Zhou
Ch: free C/C++ interpreter
http://www.softintegration.com

> 
> > 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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