Re: [Matplotlib-users] turn off antialiasing of text

2008-07-07 Thread fkjt79
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 -- View this message in context:

[Matplotlib-users] turn off antialiasing of text

2008-07-03 Thread fkjt79
Hi 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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] turn off antialiasing of text

2008-07-03 Thread Michael Droettboom
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