Re: [matplotlib-devel] dviread: usetex for the PDF backend

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

On Sunday 30 September 2007 04:16:08 pm Jouni K. Sepp=E4nen wrote:
> It turns out (thanks to Darren for the debug info) that AFM files do not
> exist for all fonts in all current TeX distributions, so I have modified
> the pdf backend to not use them. This loses some information that is
> required by the pdf spec (such as the x-height and stem widths of the
> embedded font) but at least in some tests Preview.app and Adobe Reader
> don't seem to mind.

Jouni, I just ran tex_demo.py, which I modified to  yield a pdf. The result=
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are really impressive. In an earlier post you mentioned that transformation=
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of Type-1 fonts probably requires a complete type-1 parser. Do you mean=20
matplotlib's ft2font is missing some functionality?

Darren