On Tuesday 24 July 2007 6:43:03 pm Chris Barker wrote: > Sorry to play devil's advocate here, but the question remains -- MPL > developers (John, primarily, I suppose): > > Why not dump MPL1, and work on a nice pylab-like front end to Chaco, > while giving the "love" to the Kiva PS, PDF, SVG back-ends (and add GTK > -- if it's not there)? > > Most users, like me, just want something that does the job for us. I > know I'm going to take a look at Chaco again. > > Add the skills of the MPL team to Chaco, and it could really shine! I could quickly find myself out of my depth on this topic, so I'll just make a couple quick points. I need to create plots for qt4 projects at my lab, and I have grown really accustomed to the quality of mpl's eps output when usetex is enabled. Darren