Cairo backend prospects

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#1

This would really be a plus. The option to use latex for

    > text layout would have to be completely reworked, if it
    > could be supported at all. Not that this is a critical
    > feature, but in my opinion it is still necessary at this
    > point for producing the highest quality plots for
    > publication.

    > 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

#2

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.

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

>>>>>

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

    > 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.