Maybe people understand different things by the name "subpixel rendering". In Agg, subpixel rendering means antialiasing like this:
http://www.antigrain.com/screenshots/agg1_01.jpg In Cairo, I'm guessing (since the OP mentioned Microsoft's ClearType) that "subpixel rendering" means utilizing the RGB subpixels on LCD monitors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType A potential problem is that different people have different displays; at least when configuring CoolType in Adobe Reader, you have a range of options to select from. I imagine that Cairo has a similar global setting, and in my opinion Matplotlib should simply respect that setting when rendering on screen. File output is more complicated: what if the file is viewed on a different kind of display than it was generated on? -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
