touch bitmap figures again. I could do entire conference
>> posters in SVG! If Justin's not interested and would accept a
>> patch, I might be willing to try and tackle this...
> By which of course I mean John, or perhaps Dr. Hunter...
John works for me
There is an SVG backend already in matplotlib. It hasn't been
announced because it is in development by Jared Wahlstrand. Perhaps
Jared can give a status report on what needs to be done, and you might
want to help out. He might have a more recent copy in his development
tree than I do.
Here are the issues as I understand them:
* image support
* font support (freetype vs afm), use of font families /
font_manager
* mathtext
* some oddness when the user calls savefig with a high dpi?
Shouldn't SVG ignore the dpi setting? That's what I did in
backend_ps.
* There also appears to be some problem in centering the figure?
I've only been testing this a bit - my SVG viewer doesn't seem to work
too well.
JDH