I'd like to thank all those who participated in fixing this bug. It's much
appreciated.
David
2007/10/29, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 10/29/07, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I submitted a fix for this in matplotlib SVN r4047. Freetype takes a
> > FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT flag to force it to bypass the patented bytecode
> > hinter at runtime (even if it was compiled in). This appears to fix the
> > problem, and doesn't force people to recompile their freetype -- they
> > should now get identical results regardless.
>
> Andrew Straw and I taught a workshop at the Claremont Colleges this
> weekend and I was running mpl from svn. When I brought up the 1st
> figure in ipython -pylab mode running GTKAgg, the fonts were totally
> whacked (see attached) and I was reminded of why they call it "the
> bleeding edge". Fortunately, it only affected the first draw of an
> ipython session. For example, a figure resize, which triggers the
> draw, made the problem go away, and subsequent figures were fine.
> Odd. I just updated from svn and it looks like the problem is gone on
> that machine, so I hope this was the source of the problem (the
> workshop machine was running open-suse)
>
> In [2]: !uname -a
> Linux ns3 2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> In other news, TkAgg is segfaulting in that environment, but I haven't
> had time to track it down since I was busy preparing the course
> material.
>
> JDH
>
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