images in SVG

Its good that this fixes the problem, but I don't see why

    > flipping an image upside down should also change its
    > size. There's probably still a bug in there somewhere, but
    > its not too important if the SVG images look correct now.

That was a different bug, which I fixed too.

    > The SVG backend is also useful for debugging because it
    > gives you a text list of everything the frontend does. For
    > example I can look at the output of './simple_plot.py
    > -dSVG' and see that the frontend seems to have a bug where
    > its drawing every tickline twice. I had a look at axis.py
    > but could not work out what was going on.

Interesting. I've heard of this once before. I'll see if I can find
it.

JDH

I reported this problem a while back when I was trying to implement
draw_markers in backend_ps. Here is the link
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11371925

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On Wednesday 03 August 2005 09:02 pm, John Hunter wrote:

    > Its good that this fixes the problem, but I don't see why
    > flipping an image upside down should also change its
    > size. There's probably still a bug in there somewhere, but
    > its not too important if the SVG images look correct now.

That was a different bug, which I fixed too.

    > The SVG backend is also useful for debugging because it
    > gives you a text list of everything the frontend does. For
    > example I can look at the output of './simple_plot.py
    > -dSVG' and see that the frontend seems to have a bug where
    > its drawing every tickline twice.

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Darren