It's certainly not exposed as an option to the user, and I don't think there's an easy way to hack this in. We can tell freetype to give us 1-bit monochrome bitmaps, but matplotlib currently expects 8-bit greyscale, so things don't really work. It's doable, but it requires some non-trivial code changes, and this isn't an oft-requested feature.
One thing you could try is generating a PDF and then converting that using a tool that has a no-antialiasing option. It should produce a better result since it's working from the glyph outlines. There may also be a way to force this in the Cairo backend (which uses Cairo for the text rendering). But I don't know much about Cairo... Cheers, Mike fkjt79 wrote: > Hi > > Previously antialiased text can look pretty ugly when converted to bilevel . > Is it possible to turn off antialiasing of text? There seems to be no > setting. I tried using the Wx backend but it antialiased, too. > > I am using matplotlib 0.98; tried wxPython 2.6 and 2.8, matplotlib 0.91.4. > > I would not mind permanently deactivating antialiasing in text.py or so. > > bye, > > Felix > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
