Andrew, I think I may have a clue how to fix the font discrepancies.
Apple owns patents on some a byte code interpreter for hinting truetype fonts:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html
and freetype can be built with the patented stuff turned on but the
default is off -- freetype has no
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, John Hunter wrote:
> According to RobK, you can reconfigure your ubuntu system to turn
> these off. He suggests:
>
> To use autohinting, use the hint in this post, or just run the
> following command:
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
>
> then choose “
John Hunter wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:17 PM, John Hunter wrote:
>> According to RobK, you can reconfigure your ubuntu system to turn
>> these off. He suggests:
>>
>> To use autohinting, use the hint in this post, or just run the
>> following command:
>>
>> sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconf
You can also turn hinting off at runtime by passing a flag to freetype.
matplotlib currently exposes this flag in the FT2Font extension, but we
don't really expose the option to the user. It would be simple enough
to make it an rcParam, though, which could then be set to "no hinting"
by the t
Michael Droettboom wrote:
> You can also turn hinting off at runtime by passing a flag to freetype.
> matplotlib currently exposes this flag in the FT2Font extension, but we
> don't really expose the option to the user. It would be simple enough
> to make it an rcParam, though, which could the
