thank you for the suggestions. from what I can find about cairo i suppose it
has the same problem. I think I will add non-antialiased text afterwards,
either manually or maybe automated.
regards,
Felix
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Previously antialiased text can look pretty ugly when converted to bilevel .
Is it possible to turn off antialiasing of text? There seems to be no
setting. I tried using the Wx backend but it antialiased, too.
I am using matplotlib 0.98; tried wxPython 2.6 and 2.8, matplotlib 0.91.4.
I
It's certainly not exposed as an option to the user, and I don't think
there's an easy way to hack this in. We can tell freetype to give us
1-bit monochrome bitmaps, but matplotlib currently expects 8-bit
greyscale, so things don't really work. It's doable, but it requires
some non-trivial