Problems with Piddle plotting package, Help.
pehr anderson
pehr at pehr.net
Wed Sep 20 01:37:35 EDT 2000
There is a program for generating graphs and
formatted PDF files available written in python.
I haven't had a chance to use it but it looks
rather well-done and professional.
Perhaps you could let us know if this helps you
meet your needs?
http://reportlab.com/
-pehr
"Louis M. Pecora" wrote:
>
> In article <mtya0pczxn.fsf at astron.berkeley.edu>, Johann Hibschman
> <johann at physics.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > Louis M Pecora writes:
> >
> > > Has anyone had any experience with the plotting package Piddle? Almost
> > > got Piddle to work on my Macintosh G3 running system 8.6, but have some
> > > problems.
> >
> > Alas, I can't help you. I tried to get it working myself, but it
> > kept crashing while trying to modify a font which it thought was
> > unmodifiable. I've yet to find a way around that one.
>
> Something about .drawsting method it doesn't like . Commenting out
> that line made the tests run fine. My version actually raises the
> exception *itself* when using .drawstring and a different Font or color
> is called for. Not sure why your crashes.
>
> Piddle looks very good, but these little gotchas give me pause. Anyone
> else have any luck with Piddle on a Mac?
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