FYI I don't know what the current state of affairs was but I looked into this a little bit about 5 or so years ago. Adobe has a spec for what the preview image in an EPS file is suppose to be (I can't remember the details on what it is but you can google for the EPS spec) but I don't think anyone really followed it. On Mac's, everything produced a PICT image and on Windows everything produced something else (I forget exactly what it was). In short, at the time I checked it out, it was very difficult to make a high quality preview image that would work well on a Mac and a Windows box.
It would be nice if things were different now. We do a lot of plotting that ends up in presentations and it would be nice if you could embed an EPS in the presentation with a high quality preview. Ted ---------Included Message---------- >Date: 28-sep-2006 14:04:55 -0700 >From: "Christian Meesters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] eps file format > >> As for the preview header, I suspect there arte 3rd part tools that >> can do this (ImageMagick?). We should be able to do it ourself with >> agg, but it would require someone to dig in and figure out the spec. >> >> JDH >One last remark on this: Since so many journals demand this, would it be worth >a feature request? (I don't have the time nor the skills to work on this.) >One may think of this as one wishes (don't like these publishing companies >and their demands, either), but matplotlib wants to enable its users to >produce figures ready for publication, right? > >Christian > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >Matplotlib-users mailing list >Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ---------End of Included Message---------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
