Re: [matplotlib-devel] Inheritance graphs

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

> The current version of graphviz uses either cairo or gd (the default being
> cairo on most modern installations.)

> Now that you've uploaded the docs, I see that the font you're getting isn't
> as nice as mine.  I was setting "fontname" to "sans", which is supposed to
> get the default sans serif font on the system.  It appears, from testing,
> one can provide a list of fonts to dot, so I'll change it to try good fonts
> first, with sans as the last resort fallback.

I'm building and uploading the docs in a nightly cron on a linux box
that Fernando maintains.  Can you tell him what package(s) need to be
installed to insure cairo rendering so he can update the box?  The
anti-aliasing on some of the arrows looks pretty poor -- eg the arrow
from matplotlib.text.Text -> matplotlib.text.Annotation at
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/doc/html/api/artist_api.html.  Is it
better on your box?  Also, the start and end of the arrow locations is
pretty unsatisfying.  You would think they could hit the box edges...

Is there a way to inform dot/graphiz to not exceed a certain width?
If so, I think we should set it so the images are not wider than some
reasonable browser window for the html.

JDH