Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Darren Dale
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Ernest Adrogué eadro...@gmx.net wrote: 30/11/09 @ 22:28 (-0600), thus spake John Hunter: The two examples in the page you link to have different font sizes and possibly different font weights, which makes it difficult to do side-by-side comparisons.  Could you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
Subpixel rendering is almost never what you want when producing a PNG file, since it is likely to be shared on a different machine requiring different subpixel settings. But it looks like your mozilla example is not using subpixel rendering either, though it appears to have very strong

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Ernest Adrogué
1/12/09 @ 09:16 (-0500), thus spake Michael Droettboom: Subpixel rendering is almost never what you want when producing a PNG file, since it is likely to be shared on a different machine requiring different subpixel settings. But it looks like your mozilla example is not using subpixel

[Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-11-30 Thread Ernest Adrogué
Hi, I notice a big difference in quality between the text rendered by matplotlib and that rendered by the rest of applications. As an example, see the image attached showing the same font as shown by firefox and matplotlib respectively. Is there any config setting I can change to improve the font

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-11-30 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Ernest Adrogué eadro...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, I notice a big difference in quality between the text rendered by matplotlib and that rendered by the rest of applications. As an example, see the image attached showing the same font as shown by firefox and