Merge pull request matplotlib#3081 from pelson/points_to_pixels

Points to pixels

Author: tacaswell

doc/api/api_changes.rst

@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ original location:
   the upper and lower limits (*lolims*, *uplims*, *xlolims*, *xuplims*) now
   point in the correct direction.
 
+* A bug has been fixed in the path effects rendering of fonts, which now means
+  that the font size is consistent with non-path effect fonts. See
+  https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2889 for more detail.
+
 * The Sphinx extensions `ipython_directive` and
   `ipython_console_highlighting` have been moved to the IPython
   project itself.  While they remain in matplotlib for this release,

doc/conf.py

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
 
 # General substitutions.
 project = 'Matplotlib'
-copyright = '2002 - 2012 John Hunter, Darren Dale, Eric Firing, Michael Droettboom and the matplotlib development team; 2012 - 2013 The matplotlib development team'
+copyright = '2002 - 2012 John Hunter, Darren Dale, Eric Firing, Michael Droettboom and the matplotlib development team; 2012 - 2014 The matplotlib development team'
 
 # The default replacements for |version| and |release|, also used in various
 # other places throughout the built documents.

lib/matplotlib/patheffects.py

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class PathEffectRenderer(RendererBase):
 
     This proxy then intercepts draw calls, calling the appropriate
     :class:`AbstractPathEffect` draw method.
-    
+
     .. note::
         Not all methods have been overridden on this RendererBase subclass.
         It may be necessary to add further methods to extend the PathEffects
@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@ def draw_path_collection(self, gc, master_transform, paths, *args,
             renderer.draw_path_collection(gc, master_transform, paths,
                                           *args, **kwargs)
 
+    def points_to_pixels(self, points):
+        return self._renderer.points_to_pixels(points)
+
     def _draw_text_as_path(self, gc, x, y, s, prop, angle, ismath):
         # Implements the naive text drawing as is found in RendererBase.
         path, transform = self._get_text_path_transform(x, y, s, prop,