[Matplotlib-users] Rotation kills anti-aliasing?

2008-05-05 Thread Diwaker Gupta
Folks, I'm trying to make a simple plot where the xtick labels are rotated by 45 degrees. The rotation works fine, but it destroys the anti aliasing of the labels. The rest of the plot renders just fine. I'm using the PS backend (savefig to an EPS). Something like this: labels = [one, two,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rotation kills anti-aliasing?

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Firing
Diwaker Gupta wrote: Folks, I'm trying to make a simple plot where the xtick labels are rotated by 45 degrees. The rotation works fine, but it destroys the anti aliasing of the labels. The rest of the plot renders just fine. I'm using the PS backend (savefig to an EPS). Something like this:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rotation kills anti-aliasing?

2008-05-05 Thread Michael Droettboom
Eric Firing wrote: Diwaker Gupta wrote: Folks, I'm trying to make a simple plot where the xtick labels are rotated by 45 degrees. The rotation works fine, but it destroys the anti aliasing of the labels. The rest of the plot renders just fine. I'm using the PS backend (savefig to an

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rotation kills anti-aliasing?

2008-05-05 Thread Diwaker Gupta
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Michael Droettboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try different Postscript viewers available on your platform -- it's possible one of them may produce better results. And, of course, the most important thing with Postscript is how it renders on your printer. If

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Rotation kills anti-aliasing?

2008-05-05 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Diwaker Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried several different viewers (gv, kghostview etc), but all of them seem to have the same problem. What is strange is that all other text on the graph seems to render fine. I'm attaching the EPS for reference. I