[Matplotlib-users] how to improve the font of matplotlib images ?

2011-03-16 Thread Stef Mientki
 hello, The text in matplotlib pictures is very fuzzy (certainly if you compare that to fixed texts). The picture below is from an html page, the html page is generated from a python script, which also produces the matplotlib pictures, which are stored in a

[Matplotlib-users] how to improve the font of matplotlib images ?

2011-03-16 Thread Stef Mientki
hello, The text in matplotlib pictures is very fuzzy (certainly if you compare that to fixed texts). The picture below is from an html page, the html page is generated from a python script, which also produces the matplotlib pictures, which are stored in a p

[Matplotlib-users] Qt4 on OSX

2011-03-16 Thread Daniel Welling
Greetings, MPL'ers. After playing with backends quite a bit, I have found that the best one in terms of speed, robustness, and features is Qt4Agg - especially on OSX, where the MacOSX backend is buggy and many others just don't plain work. To my great disappointment, I have found that this backen

[Matplotlib-users] Grids independent of data coordinates

2011-03-16 Thread Jörgen Stenarson
Hi, I'm interested in making plots that are plotted on a polar grid or a smith chart grid but where the data coordinates still are normal rectangular. It is not clear for me if this is possible with the standard gridding machinery or if some other approach is necessary. Another question is how

[Matplotlib-users] matplotlib.dates date within a loop

2011-03-16 Thread Evan Mason
Hi, I get unexpected behaviour using the script below. xticks only appear in the 4th subplot. If the lines marked ### are moved out of the loop (and edited so that they are constants), then xticks do appear on each subplot. Is this a bug or am I missing something? I am using matplotlib 1.1.0svn