Michael Droettboom wrote: > Darren Dale wrote: >>> One other problem to be aware of in this area: usetex does not support >>> rotated text, so autofmt_xdate and related tricks will still not work >>> until usetex supports arbitrary rotations. One thing that has been on >>> my wish list is to expose the agg image functionality a little better >>> to make things like rotating the ft2font pixel buffer easier. >> I mentioned the usetex limitation a while back on mpl-dev, the post was >> titled "arbitrary rotation of images". > > Between 0.90 and 0.91, the Agg backend grew a "draw_text_image" method, > which can draw an image at an arbitrary angle. It is hardcoded to take > the inverted greyscale images generated by FT2Font, but it should > provide a roadmap as to how to handle the rgba images used by the usetex > machinery. Usetex now supports arbitrary angles with the Agg backend. It grabs only the greyscale part of the usetex image (which isn't new -- usetex has always thrown away any color coming from (La)TeX), and then uses draw_text_image to do the drawing. (draw_image continues to not support rotation, but that is probably best done elsewhere anyway, if the need ever arises). Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA