Re: svg output preference

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:

> On 08/31/2011 11:01 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> There's been some discussion on the bug-tracker about gnu-plots svg output.
>> 
>> Gnuplot versions < 4.5 produced a dynamic result (resizeable). While the 
>> current development sources for gnuplot produced a fixed size output.
>> 
>> The gl2ps library also produced a fixed size output.
>> 
>> I think both the gnuplot and OpenGL backends should behave consistently. 
>> Does anyone have a strong preference for dynamic or fixed output?
>> 
>> Ben
>> 
>> 
> I think that the default should be resizable, but fixed could possibly be an 
> option.
> 
> Michael

I'll prepare a changeset for the gnuplot backend.

The fix for gl2ps is trivial ...

$ svn diff
Index: gl2ps.c
===================================================================
--- gl2ps.c     (revision 549)
+++ gl2ps.c     (working copy)
@@ -4882,8 +4882,8 @@
   gl2psPrintf("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" 
standalone=\"no\"?>\n");
   gl2psPrintf("<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\"\n";);
   gl2psPrintf("     xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\"\n";
-              "     width=\"%dpx\" height=\"%dpx\" viewBox=\"%d %d %d %d\">\n",
-              width, height, x, y, width, height);
+              "     viewBox=\"%d %d %d %d\">\n",
+              x, y, width, height);
   gl2psPrintf("<title>%s</title>\n", gl2ps->title);
   gl2psPrintf("<desc>\n");
   gl2psPrintf("Creator: GL2PS %d.%d.%d%s, %s\n"

... After some testing and time for others to express their opinions, I'll 
check with the author of gl2ps to see if he is receptive to this change.

Ben