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

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> 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.
>   
Sorry for the false alarm. My image browser was showing the .png and
.svg files, but not the .pdfs for some reason. I assumed it was showing
all the files in the directory, which lead to this false conclusion.

-Andrew