Re: [Matplotlib-users] IDL Font question

2007-11-01 Thread Andrew McLean
It depends exacly what you need, but this might help: Ghostscript comes with the Hershey fonts. You should be able to choose an appropriate font name in Matplotlib, e.g. Hershey-Gothic-English, and produce a Postscript file using an appropriate backend. You should then be able to convert that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew McLean
Eric Firing wrote: Andrew McLean wrote: It all works. However, I saw in the API documentation (and the source) that there is a Circle object in patch. I was hoping that using this rather than polygons would give better quality output and possibly smaller files. Now I can instantiate

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew McLean
I'm a new user of matplotlib (athough I have been using both Matlab and Python for years). I have an application where I need to display data as a set of filled circles. The centre and the radius of the circles are both specified in data coordinates. The data points have an additional scalar

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew McLean
to approximate a circle. It looks like scatter_classic did what I wanted, but that's been removed :-(. - Andrew Stephen George wrote: It *seems* like it already does what you are trying to do?, maybe I'm missing something in my understanding. Steve Andrew McLean wrote: I'm a new user