From: Rafael L. <rla...@us...> - 2005-01-25 21:32:48
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* Thomas J. Duck <to...@fi...> [2005-01-25 08:39]: > I see that there is some talk of a new release. I am just about ready to > commit changes that would add the new gcw/plplotcanvas driver. Please let > me know when a good time to do this will be. There are changes to the > build process (obviously), and so it would need a bit of testing first. > Has a date been set for the release? No release date has be set yet. We just agreed that it would be nice to release this year. You see, we are not in a hurry... We did talk though about producing a cvs release tarball. This is a low-commitment release in the sense that we do not guarantee it is breakage-free. Also, we do not advertise these releases very widely. In sum, go ahead with your commits. It is indeed a good time to introduce potential instabilities in cvs, since we are all working on non-trivial changes in HEAD. > I have done a ton of work over the last month or so on the new > gcw/plplotcanvas driver. I think that you are going to like it! It even > uses the postscript fonts. No unicode yet, though. This is indeed very interesting. One of my old plans regarding the gnome driver was to use the freetype library to draw the outline of characters as bpath objects, such that they become naturally scalable with the canvas resolution, besides being directly translatable into Postscript. I am curious to see how you implemented the Postscript fonts in the gcw/plplotcanvas driver. -- Rafael |