[Matplotlib-users] eps output from TkAgg

[matthew a. <ma...@ca...>]

Well that was one juicy update!

I was just trying to figure out how to speed up the completer in
interactive.py (which adds a noticable lag to the prompt if len(locals())  
gets to 3000 like it does for me) when I noticed this new release.

TkAgg allows me to use the default python in interactive mode, which 
allows me to use rlcompleter, *and* have matplotlib plots pop up 
without losing the prompt. Which is all lovely.

A couple of issues I noticed with TkAgg:

* fontTools installed one of its files (FontTools.pth I think) without
read permission for normal users, which cause import fontTools to fail
mysteriously

* fontTools didn't find my TTF fonts because the extensions were TTF
instead of ttf

* if I savefig('file.eps') from the TkAgg backend, the EPS file is sized 
to something much bigger than A4 (but it still works fine from the GTK 
backend)

* after playing around, I found that 

text.fontname : sans

in .matplotlibrc is the only way to get reasonably nice sans serif both in 
TkAgg and in eps files. Otherwise I get complaints from one or the other 
(e.g. if I specify Arial or Helvetica).

Cheers and thanks,
Matthew.