graphics libraries

[Christian Stimming]

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David Reiser schrieb:
> What is gnucash using in 1.9/2.0+ for drawing charts?

A copy of goffice-0.0.4 of which we use the libgoffice-graph parts, also
called "gog-*". The current release version of goffice is 0.3.0, see
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/gnome.org/sources/goffice/ For the
gnucash-2.0.0 release the internal copy will stay at 0.0.4 because this
works so far.

./configure will check for an installed copy of goffice>=0.0.4, and if
it is found, it will be used instead of the internal copy. In other
words, if the printing error is due to errors in the goffice-0.0.4 code,
then you should first install the latest goffice as an extra package,
make sure gnucash uses the external goffice, and try again.

> Personally, I have _no_ use for pie charts under any circumstances, 

:-) There are a bunch of (quite substantial) rants about the
un-usefulness of piecharts somewhere on the web. Nevertheless people
expect them to be there, so we have to keep them. The barcharts are
probably more useful. But the piecharts are much easier to program, so
if we want to provide barcharts, we get piecharts almost for free anyway.

> but
> if I can track this down, it might help in my quest for a good gnome
> base. And a few others might also benefit.

Yes. Thanks a lot.

Christian

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