[GRASS-dev] raster offset with cairo driver

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> > > > raster offset and fonts now look ok, good stuff guys.
> > > >
> > > > I've updated the fancy example on the wiki page to show off the fancy
> > > > compass: http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Cairo_driver#Examples
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > d.out.file now has added support for ps, svg, and pdf by way of the
> > > > Cairo driver.
> > > >
> > > > but it doesn't work, I get output like this for the simple spearfish
> > > > example:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > It works for me. Where "works" means "renders everything then dumps
> > > the resulting raster image to a 14MiB PostScript file".
> >
> > ... thats strange.. it wrote out a 2mb file using the "complicated
> > example", listed at the bottom of the wiki page on Cairo...
>
> If I try it, the resulting PostScript file is 26MiB.
>
> Does your PostScript file contain identifiable vector data, or is it
> just one big base85-encoded raster?
>
> Which version of cairo are you using?

Ack -- looks like i didn't exactly reproduce Hamish's example.

oops!

Dylan

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