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Hello everybody !!!
When adding some text to a plot, is there a way to know the actual
size of the letters as they appear, in such a way that I could, for
instance, draw a circle around a 'A', so that the A perfectly fits
inside ("the smallest circle containing the letter"), regardless of
the actual size of the picture I'm drawing ?
Pray excuse me if my question has an obvious answer... I am working on
Sage's library (http://www.sagemath.org/) which uses Matplotlib...
This code is not very clear to me, not to mention it is my first
contact with Matplotlib... Thank you for your extreme patience :-)
Nathann

Hi.
First of all, I would like to thank the developers of this wonderful package.
I started doing an app and I finally tried to compile it with py2exe. I run into some issues that I posted in the py2exe group here;
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ienv6p%24b42%241%40dough.gmane.org&forum_name=py2exe-users
To make it work, I ended it up having to use an older version of matplotlib and numpy. I don't know if the developers of matplotlib are aware of these issues and I am posting here just in case they don't know.
When I was trying to use version 1.0, I run into problems with the mpl data directory. The output of py2exe could only find the mpl-data dir at the root /dist of a drive. Then I decided to try a much earlier version of matplotlib, and I run into different set of problems. Finally, I tried matplotlib 0.99.1 and the problems went away (I didn't try version 0.99.3 because its release date was too close to the version 1.0).
I am just trying to make the developers aware of the problems and I hope to use newer versions in the future.
Thanks for your attention