Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Ernest Adrogué
1/12/09 @ 09:16 (-0500), thus spake Michael Droettboom: > Subpixel rendering is almost never what you want when producing a > PNG file, since it is likely to be shared on a different machine > requiring different subpixel settings. But it looks like your > mozilla example is not using subpixel re

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Michael Droettboom
Subpixel rendering is almost never what you want when producing a PNG file, since it is likely to be shared on a different machine requiring different subpixel settings. But it looks like your mozilla example is not using subpixel rendering either, though it appears to have very strong hinting

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Darren Dale
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > 30/11/09 @ 22:28 (-0600), thus spake John Hunter: >> The two examples in the page you link to have different font sizes and >> possibly different font weights, which makes it difficult to do >> side-by-side comparisons.  Could you post an exa

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-12-01 Thread Ernest Adrogué
30/11/09 @ 22:28 (-0600), thus spake John Hunter: > The two examples in the page you link to have different font sizes and > possibly different font weights, which makes it difficult to do > side-by-side comparisons. Could you post an example with > similar/identical settings? Yes, I have attache

Re: [Matplotlib-users] font rendering quality

2009-11-30 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Ernest Adrogué wrote: > Hi, > I notice a big difference in quality between the text rendered > by matplotlib and that rendered by the rest of applications. > As an example, see the image attached showing the same font as > shown by firefox and matplotlib respective