Using the patheffect in the svn, shadows can be easily supported in
all the patch-like classes, including the patch of the texts. (For
example, see the last example in patheffect_demo.py). So, it should be
straight forward and I don't see any harm in doing that.
However, I personally prefer to hav
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> This is generally a very difficult thing to do, as the position and
> the extent of the text is determined when the figure is drawn.
>
> The best way, I guess, is to create a customized Text class, but I do
> not recommend this unless you're f
This is generally a very difficult thing to do, as the position and
the extent of the text is determined when the figure is drawn.
The best way, I guess, is to create a customized Text class, but I do
not recommend this unless you're familiar with matplotlib internals.
If you're using svn version
I'm trying to make a shadow effect behind text boxes in a plot (similarly to
what can be done with legends).
After a fair bit of searching around I found the matplotlib.patches.Shadow
class which seems to be good for this. But I cannot get it to work properly.
I suspect it has something to do wit
