Darren Dale wrote: > Hi Steve, Eric, John, > On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:44, Steve Chaplin wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 09:23 -1000, Eric Firing wrote: >>> How do you see the future of a cairo backend as a prospective >>> replacement for most or all of the primary mpl backends? >> I think cairo could potentially be used to replace the pdf, ps, svg >> and gdk/gtk backends which would unify most of the backends and simplify >> a lot of the code. > > This would really be a plus. The option to use latex for text layout would > have to be completely reworked, if it could be supported at all. Not that > this is a critical feature, but in my opinion it is still necessary at this > point for producing the highest quality plots for publication.
Playing around with using Cairo for something else, I once wrote some code to convert dvi to Cairo. The code I wrote probably isn't suitable for use by matplotlib, but it wasn't particularly difficult to write. The most difficult thing was finding the correct fonts - but I know people on this list have a lot of experience with that kind of problem anyway. It is possible the code would need to be in c/c++ for speed - my code was anyway so I don't know. I would offer to write something myself, but I'm leaving the field in which I use matplotlib around now and I wouldn't be able to maintain anything I wrote. Nicholas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
