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bug #52303: printing "demo getframe 2" results in emtpy figure

Submitter:  Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dasergatskov>
Submitted:  Sun 29 Oct 2017 05:53:04 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Plotting with OpenGL Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sun 11 Nov 2018 12:38:55 PM UTC, comment #17: 

Ah... Thx Panxto that is helpful.

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
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Sun 11 Nov 2018 02:11:48 AM UTC, comment #16: 

@Philip: Yes, you can't see any added title or xlabel/ylabel because the axes object has been resized to cover the entire area of the figure.  To see what I mean, try this code line by line.


demo getframe 2
title ('my title')  # title will not be visible
set (gca, 'position', [0, 0, 1, 0.9])  # NOW it is visible



Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Sat 10 Nov 2018 03:26:18 PM UTC, comment #15: 

Sure I'll do.
I noted I that the figure left by "demo getframe 2" doesn't accept title and ylabel/xlabel strings. Is that as designed?

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Wed 07 Nov 2018 09:25:17 PM UTC, comment #14: 

This is due to svgconvert, introduced in bug #52193 (still open for tests). Can you add your failing test case there?

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
Group Member
Wed 07 Nov 2018 09:16:20 PM UTC, comment #13: 

@Panxto:
Ran a build while performing other duties, from hg id 26054 (920a4ad8043b) "remove called_from_builtin"

<demo figure 2>   ## runs fine
 :
>> print("t1b.svg")
Unable to add default font to database


... so this feels like a regression :-(

Reopen this bug or some other?

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Wed 07 Nov 2018 06:52:45 PM UTC, comment #12: 

@Panxto:
26029 (390d59717711) adding a toolbar with common browse tools to the doc browser (bug 54938)

I'll make a new cross-build soon, when depends a bit on various duties in my other life besides Octave:-)

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Tue 06 Nov 2018 08:18:03 PM UTC, comment #11: 

@Philip: Out of curiosity what is the hg id of your build? A new svgconvert option, which is used by default by the SVG device, has recently been introduced and I wanted to know if it worked fine on windows.

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
Group Member
Tue 06 Nov 2018 07:14:17 PM UTC, comment #10: 

FTR, "demo getframe 2" (see original report) now works in Windows with recent dev Octave. Printing to .svg and .png gives proper figure files.

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Tue 06 Nov 2018 04:36:11 PM UTC, comment #9: 

This works for me with png format.  I can't test with SVG because I am getting this warning:


GL2PS warning: GL2PS must be compiled with PNG support in order to embed images in SVG streams


I probably need to download the gl2ps source code and compile it myself.

I'll still mark this bug as fixed though and close it.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Tue 06 Nov 2018 12:45:57 PM UTC, comment #8: 

I think recent changes in image clipping handling should have fixed this (at least it does for me). Can someone confirm so that I can close this report?

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
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Tue 06 Feb 2018 02:49:40 PM UTC, comment #7: 

@Dan: the png support is only needed for svg output. gl2ps uses libpng to convert pixel data into png and pass them as a base64 stream to the url attribute of an image element. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6249664/does-svg-support-embedding-of-bitmap-images#6250418

Pantxo Diribarne <pantxo>
Group Member
Mon 05 Feb 2018 11:06:41 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Yes both png and svg are empty files (png is filled with 0, so it has
non -zero size).

Dmitri.
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Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dasergatskov>
Mon 05 Feb 2018 10:53:56 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Dmitri, you wrote "The same with png output."  Are you also seeing a blank output for the PNG files?

I'm getting the following odd behavior:


octave:6> graphics_toolkit qt
octave:7> clf reset;
octave:8> contourf (rand (5));
octave:9> frame = getframe (gcf ());
octave:10> imshow (frame.cdata);
octave:11> set (gca, "position", [0 0 1 1]);
octave:12> print("t1.svg")
GL2PS warning: GL2PS must be compiled with PNG support in order to embed images in SVG streams
octave:13> print("t1.png")
octave:14> exit


The t1.png file looks fine.  But I don't understand the warning message about GL2PS needing PNG support, given that I saved the plot in PNG format.  Could it be a poorly initialized input variable for one of the gl2ps routines?

Dan Sebald <sebald>
Fri 10 Nov 2017 05:40:01 AM UTC, comment #4: 

More confirmation that this is some OpenGL oddity.  The following works:


set (gca, 'position', [0+eps(1,'single'), 0, 1,1])


The fact that it has to the eps for a single value is an indication that OpenGL, which works with single precision numbers, is involved.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Mon 30 Oct 2017 04:15:46 AM UTC, comment #3: 

This is probably something to do with clipping.  Maybe there is someplace where '<' was used when '<=' was intended.

For example, If I change the position statement to


set (gca, 'position', [0 0 1.0 .999])


then I get a printout.


Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Mon 30 Oct 2017 12:03:12 AM UTC, comment #2: 

set (gca, "position", [0 0 1 1]);

At least on Fedora and current dev system it is the
line above that causes the blank print (also as .pdf)

Michael Godfrey <godfrey>
Group Member
Sun 29 Oct 2017 10:43:27 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Confirmed on Windows as well.

Philip Nienhuis <philipnienhuis>
Group Member
Sun 29 Oct 2017 05:53:04 AM UTC, original submission:  


octave:1> demo getframe 2
getframe example 2:
 clf reset;
 contourf (rand (5));
 frame = getframe (gcf ());
 imshow (frame.cdata);
 set (gca, "position", [0 0 1 1]);

octave:2> print("t1.svg")


The result is essentially empty frame. The same with png output.
(svg is attached).

7dd3ab97ccd5+ tip @

Dmitri.
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