They don't look non-antialiased to me (in your attachment or a file I generated locally). Remember, the rotation happens in raster (not vector) space, because that was the path of least resistance, but is a bit of a hack. The difference is that the trunk appears slightly darker than 0.91.x. (And 0.90.x, if I recall correctly, didn't support non-90 degree rotations of text at all). 0.91.x is using spline36 interpolation, trunk is using spline16. I *think* I changed it because I thought spline16 looked slightly cleaner (though technically less accurate), and of course is faster, but I'm not sure anymore -- SVN blame isn't helping me remember. It could have just been the example I was using at the time looked better. In any case, you should be able to change this line in _backend_agg.cpp:2197 filter.calculate(agg::image_filter_spline16()); to any of the interpolation kernels that Agg offers, and experiment until you find something suitable. Cheers, Mike John Hunter wrote: > On the trunk, it appears that font anti-aliasing is turned off on > rotated text, as in this example: > > n [26]: import datetime > > In [27]: dt = datetime.date.today() > > In [28]: dates = [dt-datetime.timedelta(days=i) for i in range(10)] > > In [29]: plot(dates, range(10)) > Out[29]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x98f96ac>] > > # after rotation the fonts are pixelated > In [34]: gcf().autofmt_xdate () > > In [35]: draw() > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save 100ドル. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-devel mailing list > Mat...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA