Thanks for the report. It's a bit convoluted, but it is automatable, at
least, and I'm glad to see it works for you.
I'd like to see a Cairo expert take on the task of upgrading our Cairo
backend to use Pango. That would make this a little cleaner and
theoretically fix the text alignment prob
Thank you Michael and Darren.
I'll keep your information for further polishing :
So far, I am not having problems with my two-steps solution :
1) SVG backend
2) rsvg + Cairo, code snippet :
svg = rsvg.Handle( filesvg )
width = svg.props.width
height = svg.props.height
surface = cairo.ImageSurf
Well, I'll give a try towards another possibility :
1 - use SVG output with rc setting : svg.embed_char_paths" to False
2 - use cairo to export to PNG/JPG etc..
Step 1 works great natively with Arabic (at least viewing it with Inkscape).
Let's see if I have problems with step 2.
2008/6/25 Darre
Hi Mathieu,
Are there perhaps some latex packages you could load using the
text.latex.preamble rc setting? This setting is officially unsupported, but
it would be much easier than adding an option to use the xetex executable
(which would probably not be officially supported by mpl).
Darren
On
Mathieu Leplatre wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to follow your tips regarding matplotlib and arabic
> support.
>
> Is it related to my installation ? (Ubuntu with package
> texlive-latex-recommended)
> I asked here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5258457
>
I have no idea.
Hi all,
I have been trying to follow your tips regarding matplotlib and arabic support.
Indeed matplotlib with Latex and unicode work great together :
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pylab import *
from matplotlib import rcParams
rcParams['text.usetex']=True
rcParams['text.latex.unicode']=True
figur
Unfortunately, I believe this is a fundamental incompatibility within
matplotlib. matplotlib uses a very simple algorithm for layout out a
line of characters which assumes ltr order and all kinds of other things.
That said, there is something you could try. Matplotlib has a "usetex"
mode whic
Hello All:
Having an issue with Arabic font support using matplotlib. When using the
correct font, Arabic characters are displayed, but are not joined together
properly; and they are also not in the correct order (the font rendered is
ltr, but Arabic is a rtl language). Is this an issue with the
