> > The resulting graph is not colored -- but in the directory > ~/.matplotlib/tex.cache/ the text is green, both in the dvi and the png > file! > > It therefore seems to me that this is not completely hopeless but I > cannot figure out how to proceed. >
As far as I know, in matplotlib, all the tex png output is treated as grey internally (the only exception I know of is ps backend, e.g., your example will show you a correct color if you save it as ps). I guess this may have been a design decision. As far as I can see, MPL currently does not support texts with varying font properties (size, color, font). One possible workaround for this could be using the latex typesetting as you tried. However, supporting this within the current text framework of matplotlib would be difficult and may not be a good idea. However, I guess there are a few workarounds you may consider to use (but unfortunately I think none of them are easy to work with). So, if you describe where you intend to use multi-color text, I'll try to give some example appropriate for your situation. Multi-color text in figure title or simple annotation would be relatively simple. Multi-color text in legend label seems to be more difficult, but should be doable. -JJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
