Just wanted to link up this thread with a question I posed on the cairo mailing list.
http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-August/011201.html Cheers, Mike Eric Firing wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: > [...] >> One middle ground I thought of since my first message is to use >> fc-list to get a list of all the fonts on the system, and continue to >> use font_manager.py for the font matching. If "fc-list" is not >> available, it could fall back to the hard-coded paths it uses now. Of >> course, the matching in font_manager.py would still need to be improved. > > Sounds reasonable. > > While you are poking around in font_manager: this is one of the biggest > chunks of mpl script startup time, even with the present caching. I > haven't looked very closely or done any testing, but I suspect more > extensive caching could work fine. Specifically, can the entire > fontManager instance be pickled, and loaded if it exists? > > Eric > >> Cheers, >> Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
