Re: [Rdkit-devel] cairo backend not loadable

[Greg L. <gre...@gm...>]

Hi Gianluca,

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM, gi...@gm... <gi...@gm...> wrote:
> I started to work with depictions and noticed the results were a bit
> ugly [1], at least if compared to rdkit generated images I can find
> online[2]
>
> Digging a bit in the code I realized the cairo backend was not being
> used as a result of commit 1515[3], which contained:
>
> -      import cairo
> +      import cairo2
>
> I guess this is just something sneaked into the commit? can we revert
> it before Q4 release?

It's basically a matter of the wrong file getting checked in.

I'll fix it in svn now.

> After fixing it, results are much better [4] but still not matching
> that one from [2]

The better results ([2]) come from using aggdraw, which you'll need to
download and build separately (instructions in the wiki). Aggdraw
really makes for nice pictures.

>
> Am I missing something obvious?

Er no, that was me that checked in the obvious mistake... apologies.

-greg