Re: [Matplotlib-users] resolution on plotting for "retina" displays?

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:53 AM, mdekauwe <mde...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> I tried your suggestions...the first one (Qt4Agg) resulted in an error
>> (below) so it looks like I am missing some packages and the second option
>> (TkAgg) pretty much gave the same quality as the macosx backend.
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>
> I am still doubtful that there is any actual bug here (at least, not without
> evidence from screen captures), but for something to impact both the TkAgg
> backend and the macosx backend, it can't be an Agg-snapping issue.  I know
> it sounds ridiculous, but could it be possible that we are hitting limits of
> floating point numbers?
>
> What is the resolution of your display and its size?
>
> Ben Root
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Doesn't Eric have a retina display mac? Eric, do you see this behaviour?

Screenshots would be a real help here as extra information to diagnose
the problem.

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