[Matplotlib-users] Does Agg support Linux?

[Steve C. <ste...@ya...>]

> Hi Steve, thanks for letting me know.  There is an off-by-one error
> and it looks like and easy fix.  For future reference, you may want to
> consider using GTKAgg as your default GUI.  This has the GTK widget
> but uses agg for rendering.  Agg supports subpixel rendering and so
> isn't susceptible to one pixel errors that crop up in GTK in a number
> of contexts.  At low resolutions, these become particularly
> noticeable.  Other benefits over the GTK backend are alpha blending,
> anti-aliased drawing, and faster image support -
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html#GTKAgg

I had a look at http://www.antigrain.com/ and downloaded
agg-2002-05-21.zip.
There's no install document, configure.ac file or Makefile that would
allow me to compile the software. It does not look like this is portable
software that will compile on Linux.

Regards,
Steve