Thanks, that worked for the line being plotted,
> although the legend box and axis are still aliased.
> Part of my requirements include supporting
> presentation quality printing. I would like to just
> use Agg as GD has dependency issues and keeps popping
> up other problems ( not to mention how great the Agg
> output looks ). But that great looking anti-aliasing
> doesn't print well, so ideally there would be a
> 'global' level flag that controls aliasing ( or not )
> for everything drawn. I know when the image is being
> created for viewing or for printing and so can set the
> flag accordingly.
I'll work on getting the rest of the objects to respect the
antialiased flag. You can control antialiasing for all lines globally
with rcParams
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#CUSTOM
JDH