On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> I'm not able to reproduce this here (git/master on Ubuntu 10.4, Python
> 2.7).  Can you send and/or link to an example broken image?  The way in
> which it is failing may illustrate the cause of the problem.  It could
> also be that the difference in the freetype library/settings is causing
> enough difference to trip the threshold (we've seen that before).  If
> that's the case (i.e. they look identical to the human eye, but there
> are some low-level differences in the anti-aliasing), we probably just
> need to increase the difference threshold on those tests.  If, however,
> those tests worked on this system until recently, "git bisect" may
> reveal what caused the breakage.


The images are extremely close by eye: I can see a little difference
on the font weight on the delta subscript in the attached images if I
toggle back and forth in eog, but it does look like a tolerance issue.
 I don't exactly when this stopped working, but my platform info is:

BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
            matplotlib: 1.1.0
                python: 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)  [GCC
                        4.4.5]
              platform: linux2

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
                 numpy: 2.0.0.dev-aded70c
             freetype2: 12.0.6

OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
                libpng: 1.2.44
               Tkinter: Tkinter: 73770, Tk: 8.5, Tcl: 8.5
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomesegvhandler":
libgnomesegvhandler.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomesegvhandler":
libgnomesegvhandler.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
                  Gtk+: gtk+: 2.22.0, glib: 2.26.1, pygtk: 2.21.0,
                        pygobject: 2.21.5
       Mac OS X native: no
                    Qt: Qt: 3.3.8, PyQt: 3.18.1
                   Qt4: Qt: 4.7.0, PyQt4: 4.7.4
                 Cairo: 1.8.8

OPTIONAL DATE/TIMEZONE DEPENDENCIES
              datetime: present, version unknown
              dateutil: 1.5
/home/jdhunter/dev/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pytz-2010h-py2.6.egg/pytz/__init__.py:32:
UserWarning: Module dateutil was already imported from
/home/jdhunter/dev/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dateutil/__init__.pyc,
but /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6 is being added to sys.path
                  pytz: 2010h

OPTIONAL USETEX DEPENDENCIES
                dvipng: 1.13
           ghostscript: 8.71
                 latex: 3.1415926
               pdftops: 0.14.3

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