Re: [matplotlib-devel] Comparing pdf output in tests

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Andrew Straw <str...@as...> writes:

> Sorry for not noticing this earlier, but I'm looking in the baseline 
> image directory, and I see a bunch of *_pdf.png files. I guess these 
> have been convered to png from pdf on the tester's machine. Do you think 
> it makes more sense to have the .pdf files in the test repo and convert 
> to png at test run time? This way we don't become dependent on gs 
> rendering quirks or differences across pdf renderers. Maybe the files 
> are also smaller.

That's exactly how it works now, isn't it? You are seeing the *_pdf.png
files because those get produced while running the tests from the *.pdf
files, and they are not checked into the svn repository.

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