Re: [matplotlib-devel] Subsetting fonts in Postscript

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

On Friday 06 July 2007 08:35:31 am John Hunter wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:
> > I don't know the root cause, but FYI I'm definitely getting rasterized
> > text with the Cairo backend for mathtext_demo.py.  (I'm using
> > cairo-1.4.10, which I believe is the latest stable release).
>
> And you are pretty sure it is all the text, not just the mathtext?  We
> do use special fonts for mathtext (the Backoma cm ttf fonts) and
> perhaps something funny is going on with them?  But that should not
> affect non-mathtext in the same figure.

When I set my backend to gtkcairo, and do something like

plot([1,2])
xlabel('$0.0, 0.1$')

it is clear that the ticklabels are not rasters, only the mathtext. My fonts 
are the MPL defaults, the search settled on Vera.ttf.