On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen<j...@iki.fi> wrote: > Should the coordinates be raw PDF points measured from the bottom left > corner, or passed through the figure transformation (or something else)? > What sort of font properties would you expect to be allowed? > >> One could use the matplotlib.text.Text >> and add it to your figure, and maybe this is the way to go, > > I think that's what the pdf backend would end up doing internally, at > least if anything like coordinate transformations or any interesting > font properties need to be supported. It sounds like a fairly easy > change.
This is a tough call. mpk is not so good at multiline text. Maybe the solution is to make mpl good at multiline text, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to "dump a paragraph" at the pdf level, and have it newline separate the text and make it look acceptable. I don't really know enough about the pdf spec to know if this is sensible. Of course, as soon as you support a little, people will want you to support more, fonts and sizes and math and what-have-you. So maybe the better solution is to make mpl multiline text better. > While we're discussing multi-page pdf files, would it be useful to have > pyplot-level support for them? It shouldn't be too hard to have pyplot > track your currently open pdf file and make, say, savefig with no > arguments direct the output to that. I personally don't have a use for > that, but do you think it would be a useful part of pyplot? The current interface looks easy enough to use -- it just needs to be advertised better, eg in a FAQ ( I had to read the source to find it, which works well enough for me, but not for everyone). If you want to write one up, I'll add it to the docs. JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
