[cairo] postscript backend cut my text
Charles Doutriaux
doutriaux1 at llnl.gov
Wed Sep 24 10:28:27 PDT 2008
pdf,svg,png work great
Just in case I'm also attaching the full C code (not just the snipet)
but the snipet shows the bug really well and the good and bad ps
geneterated (test_1.6.4.ps and test_1.7.6.ps ) Notice that there is a
lot more XXXX in the 1.6.4 as if 1.7.6 was cutting the output for
portrait orientation
C.
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>
>> Doh!!!
>> I'm sorry I forgot I rebuild with 1.6.4 last night.....
>>
>> Ok the snipet I sent yesterday might have missed a cairo_save (i
>> probably forgot a copy/paste) but it is definately still missing a bunch
>> of XXXX
>> when linking against 1.76. and it works fine against 1.6.4 so i'll be
>> suing this for now
>>
>
> Can you send us before/after PS files? Also, what happens if you generate PDF
> or SVG instead? What about image? Three of us tried the code you sent and
> couldn't reproduce the problem.
>
> behdad
>
>
>
>> hope this helps, and again sorry for the false hapy ending :(
>>
>> For now i'm going to revert 1.6.4 for our stuff
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> C.
>>
>>
>> Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>> Yes! that was it, adding a cairo_save(cr) right after creating the
>>> surface fixed it!
>>>
>>> Hum.. I'm not sure I understand why I need to do a save before i do
>>> anything else (since there's nothing on the page yet) but hey it works!
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>> C.
>>>
>>> PS: Thanks also for the pointer to cairo_trace
>>>
>>> C.
>>>
>>> Chris Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 15:38 -0700, Charles Doutriaux wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I'm running inot a weird feature under cairo 1.7.6 and 1.7.2 (don't
>>>>> think it was in 1.6.4)
>>>>>
>>>>> Considering the attached piece of code, this used to work in previous
>>>>> version
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Behdad spotted that the snippet was missing an initial cairo_save().
>>>> After adding that, the output looks like the axes for a graph, and
>>>> importantly look the same for the image and PS backends, using both
>>>> cairo-1.6 and master. This is the first hint of a regression with 1.7 so
>>>> its important for us that we are able to resolve it before 1.8 (which
>>>> Behdad keeps insisting is tomorrow ;-) If you please can verify the test
>>>> case and also grab a couple of screenshots to serve as a reference.
>>>>
>>>> <plug>cairo-trace is a very useful tool for capture/replay of bugs:
>>>> http:// cgit.freedesktop.org/~ickle/cairo-trace/</plug>
>>>>
>>>>
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