Re: Writing PDF files

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> On 18/10/2011 09:17, in article m2ehyasoh9.fsf@pushface.org, "Simon Wright"
> <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
>
>> I see no one has suggested plplot.
>> 
>> I'm looking at it with Jerry from the POV of debugging on Mac OS X, and
>> just built the first example; the plotting options as installed here are
>> 
>>  < 1> xwin       X-Window (Xlib)
>>  < 2> tk         Tcl/TK Window
>>  < 3> ps         PostScript File (monochrome)
>>  < 4> psc        PostScript File (color)
>>  < 5> xfig       Fig file
>>  < 6> null       Null device
>>  < 7> tkwin      New tk driver
>>  < 8> mem        User-supplied memory device
>>  < 9> aqt        AquaTerm (Mac OS X)
>>  <10> svg        Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG 1.1)
>> 
>> and at first glance 1, 9 and 10 certainly work, 2 and 7 don't
>> AFAICT. Note 9!
>> 
>> On the other hand, I don't know whether plplot works on Windows ..
>
> Thanks for that info, Simon. I'll investigate ASAP.

One thing I forgot to mention is that, if the plplot cmake process
detects that you have AquaTerm installed, it will include it in the
library; the code called in requires a compiler that understands
Objective C (gcc -ObjC), which none of the Ada-capable compilers I have
do. Of course, one could be built.

My work-round was to build plplot without the Ada binding, using Apple's
gcc, and make a separate libplplotada.a.