Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend currently broken

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Straw
Darren Dale wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Wednesday 18 July 2007 4:00:05 pm Andrew Straw wrote: >> I don't have time to root around for the cause right now, but the PDF >> backend isn't working. See the attachment for tracebacks generated with >> "python backend_driver.py pdf" This is with recent svn

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend currently broken

2007-07-18 Thread Darren Dale
Hi Andrew, On Wednesday 18 July 2007 4:00:05 pm Andrew Straw wrote: > I don't have time to root around for the cause right now, but the PDF > backend isn't working. See the attachment for tracebacks generated with > "python backend_driver.py pdf" This is with recent svn (3565). It looks like your

[matplotlib-devel] PDF backend currently broken

2007-07-18 Thread Andrew Straw
Hi, I don't have time to root around for the cause right now, but the PDF backend isn't working. See the attachment for tracebacks generated with "python backend_driver.py pdf" This is with recent svn (3565). -Andrew $ python backend_driver.py pdf testing pdf driving alignment_test.p

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend

2006-11-06 Thread John Hunter
> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Grilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolas> It proves it's possible to achieve it in pure Python, Nicolas> without requiring fonttools. And it can be a good source Nicolas> of inspiration. Perhaps the licence is compatible with Nicolas> matplotlib's one?

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend

2006-11-06 Thread Nicolas Grilly
On 11/5/06, Jouni K Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone here have experience with subsetting TrueType fonts (or > Type 1 or OpenType, for that matter)? One pretty frequent complaint is > that the eps files produced by matplotlib can be huge because they > include the full font. Nowada

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend (was: A question about cbook.is_string_like)

2006-11-06 Thread Nicolas Grilly
> "Nicolas Grilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've just some issues with: > > - text alignment (I fixed it on my working copy of matplotlib); > > Great! Is there a patch somewhere? Yes, I'm preparing one and I'll submit it in the next few days. ---

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend

2006-11-05 Thread John Hunter
> "Jouni" == Jouni K Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jouni> OK. Was it just that you don't want to require mpl users to Jouni> install fonttools, or were there other problems with it? One problem was that it was large compared to mpl at the time, and mpl was pure python. So it c

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend

2006-11-05 Thread Jouni K Seppanen
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI, matplotlib used to depend on fonttools, but we found the > dependency too onerous and booted it and wrote our own, lighter > freetype support. So I would be reluctant to reintroduce this > dependency. OK. Was it just that you don't want to require m

Re: [matplotlib-devel] PDF backend

2006-11-05 Thread John Hunter
> "Jouni" == Jouni K Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jouni> able to do font subsetting. I was going to look into the Jouni> Fonttools library by Just van Rossum, but lately I've been Jouni> too busy with other things to. FYI, matplotlib used to depend on fonttools, but we fou

[matplotlib-devel] PDF backend (was: A question about cbook.is_string_like)

2006-11-05 Thread Jouni K Seppanen
Andrew Straw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I get back to that manuscript (ahem), I'll probably try to bang > the PDF backend further into shape. What bits need to be > added/fixed? Is the PDF backend TODO list documented anywhere? > where? The TODO list is in the comments of backend_pdf.py:

[matplotlib-devel] PDF backend (was: backends)

2006-07-16 Thread Jouni K Seppanen
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As you may know, we have a prototype of a PDF backend, though it is > missing many features. I've been offline for a while (and will be for at least a week more), but I hacked a bit more on the PDF backend and just did a commit. Now it tries to support im