RE: [Matplotlib-users] simple api question

[Kuzminski, S. R <SKu...@fa...>]

The GD output looks good when printed, maybe I will switch between the 2
( Agg for display, GD for printing ).  The Agg un-aliased lines don't
come out quite as well, they seem to render more of the pixels for each
point on the line.  Nice to have the different backend options.

S   =20

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hunter [mailto:jdh...@ni...]=20
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 8:37 AM
To: Kuzminski, Stefan R
Cc: mat...@li...
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] simple api question

>>>>> "Kuzminski," =3D=3D Kuzminski, Stefan R <SKu...@fa...>
writes:

    Kuzminski> Thanks, that worked for the line being plotted,
    Kuzminski> although the legend box and axis are still aliased.
    Kuzminski> Part of my requirements include supporting
    Kuzminski> presentation quality printing.  I would like to just
    Kuzminski> use Agg as GD has dependency issues and keeps popping
    Kuzminski> up other problems ( not to mention how great the Agg
    Kuzminski> output looks ).  But that great looking anti-aliasing
    Kuzminski> doesn't print well, so ideally there would be a
    Kuzminski> 'global' level flag that controls aliasing ( or not )
    Kuzminski> for everything drawn.  I know when the image is being
    Kuzminski> created for viewing or for printing and so can set the
    Kuzminski> flag accordingly.

I'll work on getting the rest of the objects to respect the
antialiased flag.  You can control antialiasing for all lines globally
with rcParams

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#CUSTOM


JDH