Re: [Plplot-general] Where is the PNG driver ? (wrong attachment)

[Dan L. <dle...@ip...>]

Geoffrey Furnish wrote:

> Michael writes:
>  > Let me be clear.  I am not the developer of this code.  The fellow
>  > that developed the code post the information to the old plplot mail
>  > list and I get it from him and tried it out.  I just happened to
>  > still have a copy of the plplot library that included that code
>  > when Dan asked.  The fonts were not good enough for the data
>  > analysts I write code for and I no longer use it.
>  >

When the image is rotated to an upright "0.0" position, the fonts
drastically
improve to my mind.  Mike claims Imagetick does an even better job.
I browsed the net and it seemed like Imagetick was not freeware.  Does it
cost anything or not?

> ...great tumult and tribulation in the PLplot community), and I have
> never really gotten back around to working on that and getting them
> fully checked in.  I think the main outstanding issue for me, isn't
> the drivers themselves, but the work that will be needed on the
> autoconf system to automate their configuration, as we do for the Tcl
> and other similar such driver support.

I found on linux you have to just add gif and png here and there and it
works (see my
latest version of attach notes).  However, there is a bug or two that might
be fixed in an
autoconf program.  Right now I have to fix by altering both libpng and
plplot.

> Someday I will, but I really cannot make promises about dates here, as
> I am quite busy at work.  If anyone can't wait, they are free to do a
> cvs checkout, make the mods, and submit a patch.
>
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