Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-03 Thread Ryan May
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Gael Varoquaux gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:49:38PM -0600, Ryan May wrote: Other than the automatic regeneration from latex, what you want sounds like what we already have: small python scripts. In general, I'm

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-03 Thread Eric Bruning
One of the mpl backends is svg; can you use something like Inkscape to make the plot adjustments you are talking about? Eric [F] I'll second this recommendation - indeed, it's my default workflow (except that I use Illustrator). By definition, vector image formats contain all the data needed

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-02 Thread Ryan May
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:17 AM, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Eric Firing wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi Sam, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it.

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-02 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:49:38PM -0600, Ryan May wrote: Other than the automatic regeneration from latex, what you want sounds like what we already have: small python scripts. In general, I'm completely amazed by how many people want to develop a new markup/script language to

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-01 Thread sam tygier
Eric Firing wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi Sam, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. Correct, because the capability would require a *lot* of work to implement, Would

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-02-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Sam, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. I'd like a way for saving a plot from from matplotlib, so that it can be re-rendered later, possibly with a different

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Firing
Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi Sam, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. Correct, because the capability would require a *lot* of work to implement, and most of us don't see a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-02-28 Thread Andrew Straw
Eric Firing wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi Sam, On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:35, sam tygier samtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. Correct, because the capability would require a *lot* of work to implement, and

[matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-02-25 Thread sam tygier
I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. I'd like a way for saving a plot from from matplotlib, so that it can be re-rendered later, possibly with a different backend, maybe to a different size, and maybe with changes to the labels. This would

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-02-25 Thread Troels Kofoed Jacobsen
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 09:35:07 am sam tygier wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. I'd like a way for saving a plot from from matplotlib, so that it can be re-rendered later, possibly with a different backend, maybe to a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-02-25 Thread sam tygier
Troels Kofoed Jacobsen wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2009 09:35:07 am sam tygier wrote: I think this topic has come up before, but i don't think anything has resulted from it. I'd like a way for saving a plot from from matplotlib, so that it can be re-rendered later, possibly with a