Re: [Plplot-devel] 3D bug with device pstex + comments on the status of the plfreetype alternative t

On Thursday 09 September 2004 05:24, Andrew Roach wrote:
| At 06:32 PM 8/09/2004 +0100, Jo=E3o Cardoso wrote:
=2E..
| >| The wingcc driver took a giant leap of faith in this
| >| department by ASSUMING a 24 bit driver, so did not worry about
| >| extending the palette.
=2E..
| >Why isn't a 16 bits truecolor X display enough?
|
| In practice, that would be more than enough to get the job done. Can
| we make the assumption that all X displays are going to be 16 bit ?

I can assume it the same way as you assumed 24bits in gcwin.  All=20
current linux distros must use 16/24 bits as default; and Xservers (is=20
that still a business?) generally have xservers that support multiple=20
color types and depths.

| am not debating the point here - I just do not know. When I looked at
| the xwin code, there seemed to be a lot of logic to handle displays
| with small palettes.

That's legacy code. We also have a laserjet II driver!

| If we can, then you let plplot handle it's own=20
| cmap1 cmap0 palettes, and let freetype automagically smooth the text,
| taking what colours it needs, as it needs them.

OK, thanks for the info. If/when I have spare time I will try that.

Joao

| -Andrew
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