My concern with subpixel rendering has always been that it's fine for interactive use, but for producing plots that may end up on someone else's screen or on a printer, it can actually make matters much worse.
Agg (well freetype really) could do subpixel font rendering as well, but I deliberately stayed away from it last time I looked at fonts. We could have some mechanism to determine whether the render is intended for a GUI or a file, but that would have to be dealt with carefully so as not to introduce more backend selection and context related problems. Cheers, Mike Darren Dale wrote: > On Tuesday 22 April 2008 02:54:09 pm Eric Firing wrote: > >> In case any devels are interested in making more backends work on the >> trunk: >> >> Running examples/backend_driver.py yields quite a few svg plots that are >> incorrect, with things like colorbars missing their colors. >> >> The cairo backend does better, but also needs a little work. Cairo is >> looking more interesting with the latest release; the notes say that eps >> output is now supported. >> > > Also, sibpixel rendering of fonts is supported in the new Cairo. On an LCD > monitor, fonts look sharper with Cairo than they do with AGG. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
