I tried your suggestions...the first one (Qt4Agg) resulted in an error
(below) so it looks like I am missing some packages and the second option
(TkAgg) pretty much gave the same quality as the macosx backend.

thanks.

File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py",
line 95, in <module>
    new_figure_manager, draw_if_interactive, _show = pylab_setup()
  File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py",
line 25, in pylab_setup
    globals(),locals(),[backend_name])
  File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4agg.py",
line 12, in <module>
    from backend_qt4 import QtCore, QtGui, FigureManagerQT, FigureCanvasQT,\
  File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_qt4.py",
line 23, in <module>
    from qt4_compat import QtCore, QtGui, _getSaveFileName, __version__
  File
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/qt4_compat.py",
line 36, in <module>
    import sip
ImportError: No module named sip



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