Re: [Matplotlib-users] Shadowed Text?

[Jae-Joon L. <lee...@gm...>]

You may use annotate with which you can specify offsets.

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html?highlight=annotate#matplotlib.pyplot.annotate

Or, you may consider to use the path_effect (available w/ v1.0).

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/patheffect_demo.html

Regards,

-JJ


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Nikolaus Rath <Nik...@ra...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am placing a text object in a place where the background is sometimes
> dark and sometimes light, so the text is hard to see. Adding a
> background to the text object itself looks a bit ugly, so I am wondering
> if there is a way to add a shadow to the text itself.
>
> What's the best way to do this?
>
> I thought about redrawing the same text just offset by a fraction of the
> text size, but I can't quite figure out how to do the placement
> properly. My rough idea is the get the position of the text in pixel
> coordinates, add an offset to it and then position it with display
> coordinates as well. But how do I get the display coordinates of
> something that I placed in axes coordinates? And how to I determine how
> many pixels I need to offset without knowing the dpi?
>
>
> Best,
>
>   -Nikolaus
>
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