Re: [Plplot-devel] Font issues for -dev plm and plrender

[Alan W. I. <Ala...@gm...>]

On 2019-09-11 21:41-0400 Jim Dishaw wrote:

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>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 9:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin <Ala...@gm...> wrote:
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>> Hi Jim:
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>> My understanding is plbuf supports unicode-aware system fonts.  But
>> my recent test (for details of the test, see the commit message for the commit git-decribed
>> as plplot-5.15.0-31-g3af0b2cf1) showed the combination of -dev plm (which I presume writes
>> plbuf information to a file) and plrender (which I presume reads that information) is
>> still using Hershey fonts!
>>
>> Could you please figure out a fix for this issue?
>>
> I’ll take a look at it this weekend.  I think the font support may need to be cleaned up because there is a lot of duplicated code.

Thanks for being willing to try to fix this and good luck with that effort!

Alan
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