[Rd] New version of X11, png and jpeg

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Michael Lawrence wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Revision r44621 supports (in a limited way) cairo 1.0 and hence I believe
>> vanilla FC5 -- I found what purports to be a vanilla FC5 box and it works
>> quite well there.
>>
>> Two people have reported that the svg(), cairo-pdf() and cairo-ps()
>> devices produce blank (but not empty) files.  I was able to confirm that
>> on Debian etch (cairo 1.2.4).  They do work on cairo 1.4.14 (F8) and
>> better on a 1.5.10 snapshot.
>>
>
> My intuition is that there is a missing call to cairo_show_page(). I believe
> this became unnecessary in the 1.4.x series. This should probably be called
> any time there is new page (after the first) and when the device is closed.

Yes, you are quite right (and of course the 1.5.x docs I was reading 
didn't say it was needed).  Unfortunately, that only defers the problems 
as fonts are not handled correctly in 1.2.x, at least on my test machine.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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