Re: [matplotlib-devel] updated version of the PS backend

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Jochen" == Jochen Voss <vo...@se...> writes:

    Jochen> Hello John,
    Jochen> On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 10:54:04AM -0600, John Hunter wrote:
    >> One other PS quasi-bug you may want to be aware of is the way
    >> truetype fonts are embedded.  The basic problem is that Paul
    >> couldn't find a way to access the individual glyph information
    >> so ended up having to embed the entire font. ...
    Jochen> Yes, I know about this.  Let's see whether I can do
    Jochen> anything ...

    Jochen> It would also be nice if I could find a way to use the
    Jochen> printer's built-in fonts if the user wants to.  This
    Jochen> should lead to really small PostScript files and really
    Jochen> high quality printed glyphs.

This is effectively what we were doing before we started embedding PS
fonts in matplotlib (0.61 I believe).  So you can check out a CVS
version prior to that and take a look.  It might be nice to support
this as an rc option, to use afm fonts.  matplotlib has an afm parser
and ships with the standard afm files.

JDH