Bug 172565 - compile with gd
Summary: compile with gd
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnuplot
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ivana Varekova
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-07 11:10 UTC by Patrice Dumas
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-12-21 11:31:51 UTC
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Description Patrice Dumas 2005-11-07 11:10:14 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7

Description of problem:
The new gd based png rendering is better. With the patch that avoid x crashing I didn't have any issue on FC 4 with that configuration.

There is an issue, though, as the gd back-end uses true type fonts and there are not so many in fc core, so the user still has to update by hand his GDFONTPATH. It is well documented in the gnuplot manual so I believe it is better than not having this functionality compiled in. Furthermore it is still possible to use the old driver and the behaviour of the program will match the manual.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnuplot-4.0.0-10

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use the new png terminal options
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Patrice Dumas 2005-11-07 11:19:40 UTC
Hum, after reading the manual once more it appears that the old driver cannot be
used together with the new driver... So there is a backward compatibility issue,
still I think using the gd based backend is the way to go...

Comment 2 José Matos 2006-01-25 16:46:28 UTC
The new backend supports all the options of the old one, doesn't it? 
 
The change would require to change in BuildRequires gd, instead of libpng 
(and zlib). 

Comment 3 Patrice Dumas 2006-02-05 13:11:12 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> The new backend supports all the options of the old one, doesn't it? 

Not really. The options are not the same. For example there is no gray option
for the new backend.

Comment 4 R P Herrold 2006-07-15 02:52:54 UTC
This bug and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173922 share
common buildtime needs for a BuildReq: gd-devel

What is the problem in proceeding to add it, to resolve both, please, packaging
maintainer?

Comment 5 Ivana Varekova 2006-12-21 11:31:51 UTC
Fixed in gnuplot-4.0.0-14.fc7.


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