John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FYI, matplotlib used to depend on fonttools, but we found the
> dependency too onerous and booted it and wrote our own, lighter
> freetype support. So I would be reluctant to reintroduce this
> dependency.
OK. Was it just that you don't want to require m
"Nicolas Grilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[about is_string_like]
> But in this function, I don't like the idea to try an operation on a
> string, and wait for an exception in order to know if we really have a
> string or not. It's not very efficient, nor very beautiful.
I wouldn't worry about
Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I get back to that manuscript (ahem), I'll probably try to bang
> the PDF backend further into shape. What bits need to be
> added/fixed? Is the PDF backend TODO list documented anywhere?
> where?
The TODO list is in the comments of backend_pdf.py:
Hi,
With numpy 1.0b5 and a recent matplotlib from svn (rev 2761), and
numerix set to numpy, I'm getting errors like this:
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Apr 7 2006, 10:54:33)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5250)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> fr
"John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all -- John H here under a different email I'm on vacation so
> I'll probably be out of touch for a week but just dashed into a
> cyber-cafe and couldn't resist jumping in.
[It seems that you only sent the email to me, but it looks like it is
Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 10:25 am, Edin Salković wrote:
>> Also, I thought that the author of the current code base did some
>> design mistakes at the begining. And, being a developer newbie,
>> it's a lot easier to start things from scratch, than make fix
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As you may know, we have a prototype of a PDF backend, though it is
> missing many features.
I've been offline for a while (and will be for at least a week more),
but I hacked a bit more on the PDF backend and just did a commit. Now
it tries to support im
