Re: [Matplotlib-users] building matplotlib 1.3 on OS X 10.8.4

2013-08-22 Thread Scott Lasley
On Aug 22, 2013, at 10:28 PM, James Boyle wrote: > I built MPL 1.3 from source, all seem to go OK but I ran into the problem of > not finding libfreetype.6.dylib when importing. > > On the web, I found references to this problem for builds on OS X. The > solutions refer to a file README.osx,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-devel] I have a Mac!

2013-08-22 Thread Matt Terry
> > > with/without third party X > I'm not quite sure what you mean by with/without third party X. If you > are referring to Tck/Tk: > I had an issue where MPL found the headers to freetype in /opt/local, but library in /usr/X11. Hilarity ensues. I *think* /usr/X11 showed up when I installed XQu

[Matplotlib-users] building matplotlib 1.3 on OS X 10.8.4

2013-08-22 Thread James Boyle
I built MPL 1.3 from source, all seem to go OK but I ran into the problem of not finding libfreetype.6.dylib when importing. On the web, I found references to this problem for builds on OS X. The solutions refer to a file README.osx, which is not present in the 1.3 distribution. The documentatio

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Beaumont
Thanks for these tips. It looks like some programs (like illustrator, and pdf2ps) are semi-smart about handling transparency when converting to ps. Both have their quirks (illustrator seems to mess up the bounding box, pdf2ps makes the text look worse/fuzzy). Is this the recommended/best strategy?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-22 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Chris Beaumont : > > I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like: ... > I'd like to publish something like this in a journal which requires > EPS figures. Unfortunately, EPS doesn't support transparency. > > How hard would it be to coax matplotlib (or another tool) to convert > this semi-tra

[Matplotlib-users] Intersecting polygons

2013-08-22 Thread Chris Beaumont
Hi, I have a semitransparent plot that I rather like: [image: Inline image 1] I'd like to publish something like this in a journal which requires EPS figures. Unfortunately, EPS doesn't support transparency. How hard would it be to coax matplotlib (or another tool) to convert this semi-transpare