Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using a table as a legend, ugly text output?

2010-01-19 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
While I don't known much about how table class in matplotlib works internally, I think it would not be easy (because the legend is quite a unique object whose position is determined at drawing time). The current legend implementation is based on the offsetbox module. While it does not have a tabl

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Using a table as a legend, ugly text output?

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Droettboom
ashleyd wrote: > While I'm posting, another quick question -- my text output looks really > shoddy, even at high DPIs. It looks like somebody took a screenshot of a > tiny font and scaled it up with a linear filter. I have freetype installed, > and the matplotlib build script outputs the followin

[Matplotlib-users] Using a table as a legend, ugly text output?

2010-01-18 Thread ashleyd
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to use a table as a legend of sorts, as I have a very busy graph I'm trying to describe. Basically: - I'm visualizing data from a series of similar but not-quite-identical simulations - I'd like to have the simulation parameters displayed in a table forma