svg fonts and mathtext

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Paul Kienzle wrote:

Firefox renders the dashed grid lines as solid,
so neither is perfect.

Turns out that's a matplotlib bug. Fixed in r3804.

SVG is not quite ready for prime time.

I agree, it's probably not as far along in the details as Ps and Pdf. An alternative is to use the Cairo backend to produce SVGs. That code is probably a bit more mature, though FWIW the files it produces are larger. (And there was already a long discussion on this list about pros/cons of Cairo wrt matplotlib that I won't get into...)

Embedding characters increased the size of the svg file for this example from 12k to 42k but will decrease tech support by a lot, so its probably worth making it the default.

If I hear no objections on this list, I'll go ahead and do that.

Cheers,
Mike

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Michael Droettboom
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Space Telescope Science Institute
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I think this is well worth it -- we want to insure that the file will
render properly across SVG views.

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On 9/7/07, Michael Droettboom <mdroe@...31...> wrote:

> Embedding characters increased the size of the svg file for this example
> from 12k to 42k but will decrease tech support by a lot, so its probably
> worth making it the default.

If I hear no objections on this list, I'll go ahead and do that.