On 06/11/2010 01:31 PM, jason-s...@creativetrax.com wrote: > On 6/11/10 9:44 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> On 06/11/2010 09:46 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> >> >>> However, there's actually a bug in the quantizer that your example >>> illustrates. Since the spine lines in your example have a stroke width >>> of 4 pixels, they should actually be rounded to the nearest pixel edge, >>> not nearest center pixel. So the quantizing is causing this slight >>> alignment problem *and* making the straight lines look fuzzier than they >>> should. I'm planning on writing a patch that will take stroke width >>> into account to address this. By coincidence only, this will also make >>> your example plot look more accurate (but that's dependent on the >>> specific scale being used). >>> >>> >>> >> This specific bug is fixed in r8414. >> >> Mike >> >> >> > I tested your fix, and now this example gives the same sort of problem > (note that in this case, the spine is 1 pixel wide; I've just changed > the dpi): > That's exactly what I meant when I said "By coincidence only, this will also make your example plot look more accurate (but that's dependent on the specific scale being used)." This isn't a proper fix, other than to make even-width lines looking less fuzzy. The correct fix (to either make quanitizing an rcParam or to adjust the data based on it) is much more work.
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