[GRASS-dev] ps driver and polygon fill

[Moritz Lennert]

On Fri, February 8, 2008 22:59, Glynn Clements wrote:
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> Moritz Lennert wrote:
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>> Trying to use d.vect.chart with the PS driver, I get circles which are
>> filled by lines. See [1].
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> d.vect.chart? Or d.vect.thematic?
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d.vect.chart

>> I remember there was some discussion about this before, but is this
>> inevitable in the current state of the display system and the PS driver
>> ?
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> No. It's perfectly possible to draw filled areas as filled areas. But
> if a module decides to do its own filling by telling the driver to
> draw lots of lines, then you get lots of lines. The display drivers
> can't "undo" any rasterisation performed by the module.
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> IOW, it's a problem with the modules, or with specific libraries which
> they use, not with the display system.

Ok, then I´ll look into the code to see what´s going on.

Moritz
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