Re: [matplotlib-devel] polar_demo output

2007-09-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:44:51 -0500, John Hunter wrote: A minor correction -- all the backends support rectangular clipping -- but only agg supports polygon clipping currently. The polar axes uses a polygon approximation to a circle for the axes border which is used to clip the lines. I think

Re: [matplotlib-devel] contourf masking bug

2007-07-12 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:29:06 -1000, Eric Firing wrote: So one reason why the backends are a bit of a kludge is because we have tried to throw some extra stuff into the GTK drawing model as an afterthough. We could redo all the collection stuff w/ compounds paths. What's the GTK drawing

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Embedded fonts in SVG

2007-07-10 Thread Carl Worth
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:43:49 -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: major SVG renderers support seems to be the issue at first glance. None of the big open source options -- Firefox, inkscape, rsvg -- seem to support it. That's my understanding as well. Until there's something readily available to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] OT: licensing discussion

2007-07-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 02:16:34 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote: Carl Worth wrote: http://www.scipy.org/License_Compatibility Thanks, John, for sharing this essay. Please allow me to respond to a few points: I can't answer your question about GPL in the gub'ment, but I would really like

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Subsetting fonts in Postscript

2007-07-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:20:59 -0500, John Hunter wrote: On 7/5/07, Carl Worth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Carl -- thanks for the response. You're quite welcome. Thank you for receiving it as intended---as an alternate viewpoint based on my experience. I think LGPL is a perfectly good license

Re: [matplotlib-devel] OT: licensing discussion

2007-07-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:05:22 -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: Sorry to spam this list with this, but it came up here... Carl, you have clearly thought this out a lot, and have a real experience with this, so I have a issue that you may have some insights into: Yes, I have thought about

Re: [matplotlib-devel] OT: licensing discussion

2007-07-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:03:30 -0700, Christopher Barker wrote: to, so maybe I'm missing something. In essence, I see a distinction between contributing to a project someone else is releasing, and creating a derived work that I release myself. Maybe there is no difference. I'll reply only to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Subsetting fonts in Postscript

2007-07-05 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:46:13 -0500, John Hunter wrote: The postscript backend as it stands is in good shape, and is full featured (Darren can tell you how much work he has put into supporting and enhancing the latex support). The last major issue with it is the font size issue, and with your

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Subsetting fonts in Postscript

2007-07-05 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:22:11 -1000, Eric Firing wrote: I have made a few changes in svn to facilitate testing cairo with backend_driver (and to fix a bug that turned up), and I will do a bit more on this later today or tomorrow. Cool. I've started downloading all the matplotlib source history

[matplotlib-devel] cairo patch #3: snap dash lengths

2007-06-20 Thread Carl Worth
I noticed on the simple_plot.py example that the grid was coming out pretty ugly without any snapping on the dashes. Here's a little patch that adds that. -Carl PS. As should be obvious, this patch depends on my first patch that adds the _snap variable.

[matplotlib-devel] Re-enable clipping for cairo backend

2007-06-19 Thread Carl Worth
Here's a second[*] patch for the cairo backend. This one re-enables clipping. All the necessary code was present already, but disabled with a comment claiming problems on two of the examples. I double-checked both examples but found no problems, (whereas, obviously without clipping things don't

[matplotlib-devel] cairo patch #4: Fix draw_arc

2007-06-19 Thread Carl Worth
The draw_arc code was putting all arcs centered on the origin instead of the proper location. This patch fixes that. With this, plus my earlier patch #2 to enable clipping, the line_styles.py example is now rendering quite well with the cairo backend. However my patch #1 to add the snapping is