Re: [matplotlib-devel] Subsetting fonts in Postscript

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Carl Worth wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:22:11 -1000, Eric Firing wrote:
[...]
> 
> My suggestion would be to make it default to .png if no additional
> information is provided, and then to also add some sort of pseudo
> backends so that the other cairo-supported file types could easily be
> obtained with this same savefig call. For example something like:
> 
> 	python myscript.py -dCairoPDF
> 
> What do you think? Would that be simple to implement?

It's done, except that it is '-dCairo.pdf'.

Also, examples/backend_driver.py now supports case-insensitive 
specifation of backends, and the same form of cairo specification.  See 
docstring at the top.

I found that the cairo backend writes ps files but not eps--it enlists 
backend_ps for eps files.  Does pycairo not have a way to specify eps 
rather than ps output?

Eric

> 
> -Carl
> 
> PS. I'd be more inclined to name the backends things like cairo-pdf
> than CairoPDF but it seems that the latter better fits the existing
> convention for matplotlib backend naming.