[Plplot-general] SVG driver patch

[Joseph W. <joe...@gm...>]

FYI,

I just submitted a patch to the SVG driver on the sourceforge project
page.  The patch
moves some of the transforms into the text element itself and it cuts
down the size
of the SVG by 50% in some of my test cases.  What happens is that the SVG driver
uses text to plots out hershey fonts, so you have data heavy plots in
which each point
is a massive bit of XML.

I think that some other improvements may be possible.  There are a lot
of text attributes
that look like they might be shared, but I don't know enough SVG to
know how to go about
doing that.