Re: Gnuplot 4.6

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2013, at 7:16 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I have seem some amazing improvements on gnuplot quality by adding the
>> cairo library. Is GNU Octave exploiting this extended features
>> already?
>> http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_svg/
>
> I don't think so. When I rewrote the print functionality to allow for 
> multiple toolkits, I tried to streamline everything as much as possible to 
> reduce maintenance and bugs. My approach was to have the print() behave 
> similarly for all toolkits.  Unless there are changes I'm unaware of, the 
> FLTK and gnuplot toolkits each begin by creating a eps-file and then convert 
> it to the desired format using epstool, epstoedit, transfig, and/or 
> ghostscript.
>
> For gnuplot, it is possible to do things differently, but there will be other 
> features.  For example, the linestyles and markertypes are not consistent 
> across different terminals.  Surprisingly even the fontsize may change across 
> different terminals (specifying a fontsize of 12 points doesn't always mean 
> you'll get a a font with a size of 12 points).  All of this manageable, but 
> since these features are opportunities for bugs, I choose to avoid them in 
> the initial implementation.
>
> Ben
>

Do you think is possible to have the cairo terminal as an option for
the gnuplot toolkit?