Re: [matplotlib-devel] Cairo backend prospects

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

>>>>> "John" == John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> writes:

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
    Darren> This would really be a plus. The option to use latex for
    Darren> text layout would have to be completely reworked, if it
    Darren> could be supported at all. Not that this is a critical
    Darren> feature, but in my opinion it is still necessary at this
    Darren> point for producing the highest quality plots for
    Darren> publication.

    John> For many people this is absolutely the killer feature of mpl

But I should add if cairo the cairo ps backend had good image support,
we could put 6000 dpi images into the ps backend for the latex
mathtext which would be fine.

JDH