Re: [matplotlib-devel] polar_demo output

2007-09-06 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 19:44:51 -0500, "John Hunter" wrote: > > A minor correction -- all the backends support rectangular clipping -- > but only agg supports polygon clipping currently. The polar axes uses > a polygon approximation to a circle for the axes border which is used > to clip the lines. I

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Straw
Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:46:24AM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote: >> We could store a copy of the png output somewhere in the svn tree. >> Then, >> whenever we change something we can do a binary comparison on all the >> plots. It would avoid issues such as breakage of polar pl

Re: [matplotlib-devel] polar_demo output

2007-09-06 Thread John Hunter
On 9/6/07, Michael Droettboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is a known bug (and maybe a bug should be filed so it doesn't > get lost). > > Most of the backends don't have support for clipping which would be required > for this to work. > A minor correction -- all the backends support

Re: [matplotlib-devel] polar_demo output

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think this is a known bug (and maybe a bug should be filed so it doesn't get lost). Most of the backends don't have support for clipping which would be required for this to work. Cheers, Mike - This SF.net email is spons

[matplotlib-devel] polar_demo output

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Kienzle
polar_demo agg and polar_demo pdf/ps/svg show different results. In agg, the spiral is clipped to the polar axes. In pdf/ps/svg it is clipped to the rectangle containing the axes. Note: I don't use polar plots, so I'm mentioning this for completeness only. - Paul

[matplotlib-devel] .bmp file saving

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
The Agg backend has a feature where if "bmp" was specified as a file extension, it saves as a raw RGBA image. IMHO, this is perhaps too easily confused with the "Microsoft Windows Bitmap" format. There is a (someone else's) bug filed against this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py

2007-09-06 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Paul Kienzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We could store a copy of the png output somewhere in the svn tree. Then, > whenever we change something we can do a binary comparison on all the > plots. It would avoid issues such as breakage of polar plots where the > author of the changes didn't con

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
Paul Kienzle wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:14:19AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: >> On a broader note, I've been using backend_driver.py as my ersatz >> "acceptance test suite." Not all of these examples are included in it, >> of course. Is there good reason for that, or should I go ah

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:46:24AM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote: > We could store a copy of the png output somewhere in the svn tree. > Then, > whenever we change something we can do a binary comparison on all the > plots. It would avoid issues such as breakage of polar plots where the > author of th

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Kienzle
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:14:19AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: > On a broader note, I've been using backend_driver.py as my ersatz > "acceptance test suite." Not all of these examples are included in it, > of course. Is there good reason for that, or should I go ahead and add > these to b

[matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
Paul Kienzle wrote: > I went through the demo list again today. Here are some problems: > > $ python fonts_demo.py > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "fonts_demo.py", line 31, in > font.set_name('Script MT') > AttributeError: 'FontProperties' object has no attribute 'set_name' F