Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.81

[dimitri p. <dim...@gm...>]

Great!
0.81 solves the problem I had earlier with the graph plot in PyGTK.

Thanks,
Dimitri

On 6/7/05, John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> wrote:
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> Win32 Warning: This is the first release I've done since my windows
> build syste dies and I had to reinstall a bunch of tools and some
> version numbers in my GTK build environment changed (eg my GTK
> setup). Let me know if you encounter any problems. As always, try
> removing site-packages/matplotlib and reinstalling before reporting
> any problems
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> TeX support : Now you can (optionally) use TeX to handle *all* of the
> text elements in your figure with the rc param text.usetex (*Agg and
> PS only). PS support requires tex, dvips and Ghostscript 8.51
> (older versions do not work properly -- test your version with
> 'gs --version'). Agg support requires tex and dvipng. A
> directory ~/.tex.cache is created where support files are cached for
> later reuse. We opted to ues TeX rather than LaTeX because it is
> faster and can do all the things we thought useful for figure text
> snippets. See http://matplotlib.sf.net/screenshots.html#tex_demo
> and http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.texmanager.html. There are
> several new rc params for configuring tex/latex support
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> # use tex/latex for all text handling
> text.usetex : False
> # tex is faster, but latex is required to use special font
> # packages. See font.latex.package
> text.tex.engine : latex
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> # This must be an available LaTeX font package,
> # like 'times' or 'pslatex' ; only applies if text.usetex
> # is true
> font.latex.package : type1cm
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> Special thanks to Darren Dale for lots of hair-pulling work
> customizing, enhancing and debugging the ps backend for LaTeX
> support.
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> Masked arrays: Support for masked arrays in line plots, pcolor and
> contours. There are some problems with filled contours and masked
> arrays. Thanks Eric Firing and Jeffrey Whitaker.
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> Contour levels arg changes: see http://matplotlib.sf.net/API_CHANGES
> for details
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> Byte images: Much faster imaeg loading for MxNx4 or MxNx3 UInt8
> images, which bypasses the memory and CPU intensive integer/floating
> point conversions. Nicolas Girard
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> New image resize options interpolation options. New values for the
> interp kwarg are
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> 'nearest', 'bilinear', 'bicubic', 'spline16', 'spline36',
> 'hanning', 'hamming', 'hermite', 'kaiser', 'quadric', 'catrom',
> 'gaussian', 'bessel', 'mitchell', 'sinc', 'lanczos', 'blackman'
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> See help(imshow) for details, particularly the interpolation,
> filternorm and filterrad kwargs.
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> Text and dashes - Daishi Harada contributed a patch for connecting
> text to points with lines. See examples/dashpointlabel.py and
> examples/dashtick.py
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> Fast markers on win32: The marker cache optimization is finally
> available for win32, after an agg bug was found and fixed (thanks
> Maxim!). Line marker plots should be considerably faster now on
> win32.
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> set deprecated: use setp instead; a simple, mostly braindead,
> conversion script is provided below
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> Qt in ipython/pylab: You can now use qt in ipython pylab mode. Thanks
> Fernando Perez and the Orsay team!
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> Agg wrapper proper: Started work on a proper agg wrapper to expose
> more general agg functionality in mpl. See examples/agg_test.py.
> Lots of wrapping remains to be done.
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> New scalar formatter: Darren Dale did a lot of work to make scalar
> formatting smarter in pathalogical cases. See
> examples/newscalarformatter_demo.py
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> Small features: linewidth and faceted kwarg to scatter to control
> edgewidth and color, autolegending now inspects line segments in
> addition to vertices, upgraded to agg23, new example showing how to
> use line collections examples/line_collection.py, fixed antialiased
> property setting in agg, added a postscript papersize rc option,
> added an example showing how to embed mpl in a qt app
> examples/embedding_in_qt.py, arrow keys now exposed in mpl's GUI
> neutral event handling, added "among" kwarg to axes picker function
> to limit picks, added autoscale_on property to Axes to control
> whether or not autoscaling is done.
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> Bug fixes: fixed a contour masked array bug, contour memory leak
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> # Here is a script to recursively convert set and get to setp and
> # getp. Please backup entire directory recursively before
> # running this script
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> from matplotlib.cbook import listFiles
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> for fname in listFiles('.', '*.py'):
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> lines =3D []
> cnt =3D 0
> for line in file(fname):
> if line.lstrip().startswith('set('):
> line =3D line.replace('set(', 'setp(')
> cnt +=3D1
> if line.lstrip().startswith('get('):
> line =3D line.replace('get(', 'getp(')
> cnt +=3D1
> lines.append(line)
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> file(fname, 'w').writelines(lines)
> print '%s\t: %d replacements'%(fname,cnt)
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