> On Friday 23 May 2008 10:35:14 am Friedrich Hagedorn wrote: >> are there plan to implement a new backend for the latex proper use >> which create the drawing comand in the pgf language? With this kind >> of graphic creation I could overcome all the (font-) scaleing problems >> I have when I want to include a mpl graphic in my latex document.
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Darren Dale wrote: > I'm not familiar with pgf, could you provide some more information? What > problems do you have with font scaling, and what additional capabilities do > you think such an approach would offer? PGF is the LaTeX portable graphics format, which can be used both with PDF production and DVI->PS production. It is a very nice innovation for LaTeX users, especially via its TikZ interface. PGF users get the full power of LaTeX for typesetting on their diagrams. This is great. For this reason, I often write PGF/TikZ code by hand when my graphs are simple. A PGF backend would be wonderful for LaTeX users who are producing documents for final distribution. All that said, I suspect the payoff to me personally would be modest, as I am almost always producting documents for later publication, at which point I generally need to provide EPS or PDF figures. If you are still interested, you may find the following to be useful: <URL:http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mertz/> hth, Alan Isaac ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
