On Wednesday 05 December 2007 11:32:29 am Michael Droettboom wrote: > Michael Droettboom wrote: > > Darren Dale wrote: > >>> One other problem to be aware of in this area: usetex does not support > >>> rotated text, so autofmt_xdate and related tricks will still not work > >>> until usetex supports arbitrary rotations. One thing that has been on > >>> my wish list is to expose the agg image functionality a little better > >>> to make things like rotating the ft2font pixel buffer easier. > >> > >> I mentioned the usetex limitation a while back on mpl-dev, the post was > >> titled "arbitrary rotation of images". > > > > Between 0.90 and 0.91, the Agg backend grew a "draw_text_image" method, > > which can draw an image at an arbitrary angle. It is hardcoded to take > > the inverted greyscale images generated by FT2Font, but it should > > provide a roadmap as to how to handle the rgba images used by the usetex > > machinery. > > Usetex now supports arbitrary angles with the Agg backend. It grabs > only the greyscale part of the usetex image (which isn't new -- usetex > has always thrown away any color coming from (La)TeX), and then uses > draw_text_image to do the drawing. (draw_image continues to not support > rotation, but that is probably best done elsewhere anyway, if the need > ever arises).
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