Re: [Dvipng] question about change since dvipng-1.09

[Darren Dale]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 02:48:18 am Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
> Darren Dale wrote:
> > I am a developer on the matplotlib plotting library for python. I
> > recently updated from dvipng-1.09 to 1.10, and noticed a difference in
> > the way our latex expressions get rendered into our figures. There are
> > two examples attached, where I have loaded a png file into an array and
> > then plotted the array as an image, one with dvipng 1.09 and one with
> > dvipng-1.11. Could anyone help me understand what has changed since 1.09?
>
> Nothing that would cause that. There are things that I can think of that
> causes this (like -Q 1 and not having FreeType nor t1lib, but that seems
> unlikely). How did you build dvipng?

I'm sorry, this was my mistake. For dvipng 1.5 and earlier, Matplotlib had to 
get the alpha differently than later versions, and I was comparing version 
strings: '1.10' > '1.5' is False.

I'm really sorry for the noise.

Darren