Eric Firing wrote: > Diwaker Gupta wrote: > >> Folks, >> >> I'm trying to make a simple plot where the xtick labels are rotated by >> 45 degrees. The rotation works fine, but it destroys the anti aliasing >> of the labels. The rest of the plot renders just fine. I'm using the >> PS backend (savefig to an EPS). Something like this: >> >> labels = ["one", "two", "three"] >> xticks(arange(len(labels)), labels, rotation="45") >> >> Is this a known issue? Any work arounds? >> >> Thanks, >> Diwaker >> > > If your output is Postscript, then the antialiasing of text is being > done (or not done) by whatever is rendering your .ps file, not by mpl. > So there is nothing mpl can do about it. > Try different Postscript viewers available on your platform -- it's possible one of them may produce better results. And, of course, the most important thing with Postscript is how it renders on your printer. If you're still seeing non-antialised fonts in everything, please attach the .eps file to this list and I'll have a look at it for anything strange.
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