Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG figs

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

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Jonas <jo...@co...> writes:

    >> touch bitmap figures again. I could do entire conference
    >> posters in SVG!  If Justin's not interested and would accept a
    >> patch, I might be willing to try and tackle this...

    Eric>  By which of course I mean John, or perhaps Dr. Hunter...

John works for me :-)

There is an SVG backend already in matplotlib.  It hasn't been
announced because it is in development by Jared Wahlstrand.  Perhaps
Jared can give a status report on what needs to be done, and you might
want to help out.  He might have a more recent copy in his development
tree than I do.

Here are the issues as I understand them:

  * image support

  * font support (freetype vs afm), use of font families /
    font_manager

  * mathtext

  * some oddness when the user calls savefig with a high dpi?
    Shouldn't SVG ignore the dpi setting?  That's what I did in
    backend_ps.

  * There also appears to be some problem in centering the figure?

I've only been testing this a bit - my SVG viewer doesn't seem to work
too well.

JDH