Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
>>> One other problem to be aware of in this area: usetex does not support
>>> rotated text, so autofmt_xdate and related tricks will still not work
>>> until usetex supports arbitrary rotations.  One thing that has been on
>>> my wish list is to expose the agg image functionality a little better
>>> to make things like rotating the ft2font pixel buffer easier.
>> I mentioned the usetex limitation a while back on mpl-dev, the post was 
>> titled "arbitrary rotation of images".
> 
> Between 0.90 and 0.91, the Agg backend grew a "draw_text_image" method, 
> which can draw an image at an arbitrary angle.  It is hardcoded to take 
> the inverted greyscale images generated by FT2Font, but it should 
> provide a roadmap as to how to handle the rgba images used by the usetex 
> machinery.

Usetex now supports arbitrary angles with the Agg backend.  It grabs 
only the greyscale part of the usetex image (which isn't new -- usetex 
has always thrown away any color coming from (La)TeX), and then uses 
draw_text_image to do the drawing.  (draw_image continues to not support 
rotation, but that is probably best done elsewhere anyway, if the need 
ever arises).

Cheers,
Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA

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