Re: [matplotlib-devel] buildbot font discrepancies

2009-08-31 Thread Andrew Straw
Michael Droettboom wrote: > You can also turn hinting off at runtime by passing a flag to freetype. > matplotlib currently exposes this flag in the FT2Font extension, but we > don't really expose the option to the user. It would be simple enough > to make it an rcParam, though, which could the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] buildbot font discrepancies

2009-08-31 Thread Michael Droettboom
You can also turn hinting off at runtime by passing a flag to freetype. matplotlib currently exposes this flag in the FT2Font extension, but we don't really expose the option to the user. It would be simple enough to make it an rcParam, though, which could then be set to "no hinting" by the t

Re: [matplotlib-devel] buildbot font discrepancies

2009-08-30 Thread Andrew Straw
John Hunter wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, John Hunter wrote: >> According to RobK, you can reconfigure your ubuntu system to turn >> these off. He suggests: >> >> To use autohinting, use the hint in this post, or just run the >> following command: >> >> sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconf

Re: [matplotlib-devel] buildbot font discrepancies

2009-08-30 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, John Hunter wrote: > According to RobK, you can reconfigure your ubuntu system to turn > these off.  He suggests: > >  To use autohinting, use the hint in this post, or just run the > following command: > >  sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config > >  then choose “