Re: [Plplot-general] Ada to AquaTerm

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-04-28 12:39+0100 Marius Amado-Alves wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I want to plot from Ada to AquaTerm (or to PS/PDF directly).

If you want PS directly, then you might want to use the psc PLplot device
driver (no extra external prerequisites, but the hinted Type 1 fonts that this
device driver uses have rather limited glyph selection), psttfc device
driver (liblasi, pango and cairo prerequisites using TrueType fonts with
normally extensive glyphs available, but liblasi does not allow hinting to
be done), or pscairo (pango and cairo prerequisites using TrueType fonts
with hinting). If you want PDF directly, then use pdfcairo (same
prerequisites and font selection as pscairo).

>
> Is there a five or less steps setup process for this?

Follow the directions in http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/ to build
PLplot.  For the initial configuration stage using the cmake command, and
look carefully at the output for any warnings about missing dependencies
that affect (a) the aquaterm device driver, (b) the psttf device driver, or
(c) the cairo device driver.  Install the needed development versions of
those external libraries and interate using the cmake command (starting with
an empty build directory each time) until all warnings about devices you
care about are gone.  Then proceed with the "make", (optional) "ctest", and
"make install" steps.

Alan
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