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Expand Up @@ -106,10 +106,10 @@ standard Python shell or IPython. It is enabled as the default backend
for the official binaries. GTK3 is not supported on Windows.

The Windows installers (:file:`*.exe`) and wheels (:file:`*.whl`) on
the `download page <http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html>`_ do not
the `download page <http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html>`_ do not
contain test data or example code.
If you want to try the many demos that come in the matplotlib source
distribution, download the :file:`*.tar.gz` file and look in the
distribution, download the :file:`*.tar.gz` file and look in the
:file:`examples` subdirectory.
To run the test suite, copy the :file:`lib\matplotlib\tests` and
:file:`lib\mpl_toolkits\tests` directories from the source distribution to
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selection of image file formats.


:term:`freetype` 1.4 (or later)
library for reading true type font files.
:term:`freetype` 2.4 or later
library for reading true type font files. Matplotlib in known
to work with freetype 2.3, and the required version will be reduced
in 1.4.1. If you need to build from source on a system which only has
freetype 2.3 available, please edit L945 of `setupext.py` to reduce
`min_version` to 2.3.


Required libraries that ship with matplotlib
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