On 2/21/07, Jouni K. Seppänen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you had time to look at my patch regarding the PDF backend? :-) > > A bit, and I couldn't quite get it to work. But what the heck, let's > put it in the repository so we can all hack on it. It is quite an > improvement to the backend, and it doesn't seem to break anything that > used to work. (I ran the examples using backend_driver.py on both agg > and pdf.) Your patch (slightly modified) is committed as of svn > revision 3027.
Thanks Jouni for committing this patch. Now, I'm working on the two issues you've mentioned below. I'll probably send a new patch fixing the font issue in the next few days. > The problem I'm having is that if I set use14corefonts on, I have to > make sure that Helvetica (or whatever) is chosen as the text font. > I used to have the setting > > font.sans-serif : Bitstream Vera Sans > > because that font works, and some other fonts that mpl finds (on my > OS X system) don't; but then setting use14corefonts on caused the afm > header parser to be called on Vera.ttf, which it obviously couldn't > make any sense of. I'm not sure I quite understand the Matplotlib font > selection system, though. > > Replacing the setting by > > font.sans-serif : Helvetica, Bitstream Vera Sans > > helps, but it would be nice to put in some sanity checks so that we > don't send the ttf file to the afm parser. > > On another note, the dpi setting was used for images. Removing it does > make the code simpler, but then all images will be at a resolution of > 72 dpi. Can you be more specific about the problems that the dpi > setting was causing? Anyway, perhaps we should find a better interface > for specifying image resolution for vectorial backends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
