Re: [matplotlib-devel] Cairo backend prospects

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 08 January 2007 12:02, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "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.

On the other hand, you would then lose the ability to search a pdf file for 
text in the figures. This is currently only possible using by setting 
ps.usedistiller to "xpdf", but it is a really nice feature.