On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Barker
wrote:
> Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
>
> Reading that web page, I'm not convinced MS made the right decision here
> -- on my monitor (which is a ViewSonic LCD, probably pretty standard),
> I'm not sure the
Freddie Witherden wrote:
> I -- personally -- am not a fan of Microsoft's implementation of
> subpixel rendering either. I feel that it applies far too heavy
> hinting to glyphs in order to force them into the pixel grid.
actually, that's a separate issue. the one in that wiki page is taking
Hello,
Does anyone know how I could plot contours on a chart like this?
thanks,
Robert
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Hi,
On 11 May 2009, at 19:56, Christopher Barker wrote:
> Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
>
> Reading that web page, I'm not convinced MS made the right decision
> here
> -- on my monitor (which is a ViewSonic LCD, probably pretty
> standard),
> I'm not sure
Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
Reading that web page, I'm not convinced MS made the right decision here
-- on my monitor (which is a ViewSonic LCD, probably pretty standard),
I'm not sure the ClearType examples really look any better, and they
certainly could
That plan makes sense to me.
The argument I was trying to make was against subpixel rendering as a
property of each Text object in matplotlib -- but later realised that's
not really applicable to what you're doing with the external math tool
anyway.
Cheers,
Mike
Freddie Witherden wrote:
> H
Hi all,
On 11 May 2009, at 12:43, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> I'm with Eric on this -- let's try to do the right thing without
> requiring any user intervention. I actually can't think of a use case
> that would require a subpixel argument on text... am I missing
> something?
Cairo has an imag
Maybe people understand different things by the name "subpixel
rendering". In Agg, subpixel rendering means antialiasing like this:
http://www.antigrain.com/screenshots/agg1_01.jpg
In Cairo, I'm guessing (since the OP mentioned Microsoft's ClearType)
that "subpixel rendering" means utilizing the
I'm with Eric on this -- let's try to do the right thing without
requiring any user intervention. I actually can't think of a use case
that would require a subpixel argument on text... am I missing something?
Mike
Eric Firing wrote:
> John Hunter wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 9:32 AM,
John Hunter wrote:
> The matplotlib.lines.Line2D objects has an antialiased property -- we
> could add the same property to matplotlib.text.Text to turn on/off
> subpixel rendering (which could also be supported as an rc param)
>
> JDH
What are the supported combinations of subpixel rendering an
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