That plan makes sense to me. The argument I was trying to make was against subpixel rendering as a property of each Text object in matplotlib -- but later realised that's not really applicable to what you're doing with the external math tool anyway.
Cheers, Mike Freddie Witherden wrote: > Hi all, > > On 11 May 2009, at 12:43, Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> I'm with Eric on this -- let's try to do the right thing without >> requiring any user intervention. I actually can't think of a use case >> that would require a subpixel argument on text... am I missing >> something? >> > > Cairo has an image backend, which is usually used for both on-screen > rendering and which also supports saving to a file. When displaying on- > screen the default is most probably fine -- Cairo gets its subpixel > rendering settings from the OS (fontconfig on Linux) so all is well. > > However, when saving to a file, depending on its intended use one may > either want to enable/disable subpixel antialiasing/rendering. If it > is intended for print you probably want to disable it, however, for > web graphics subpixel rendering is extremely common. > > Furthermore Cairo also has provisions for subpixel antialiasing for > line art. (So the same techniques which are applied to text are also > applied to polygons, curves &c.) While none of the backends currently > make use of it, it is quite likely that in the future the image > backend will support it. Therefore a general subpixel antialiasing > setting might be a better bet. > > I would therefore suggest having two options: one for when printing > and another for displaying on screen. The default for printing/saving > should probably be off, while the displaying should be got from the > system. > > Regards, Freddie. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
