Yes, that's what I've been forced to do. The problem with that is that it forces you to fix the size of the figures in your paper. When I reformat things around in subsequent revisions, I have to go back and recreate the figures - if the spacing changes. I would much rather retaining the ability to rescale in Word. Yes, I know that it does change the font size.
But as I indicated in my other message, I think Inkscape is the solution. I am still playing around with it and see if that really does it but it looks real promising. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: David Huard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] SVG vs PNG My advice would be to define the size you'll want the figure to be on paper once printed, and set the resolution to 300 dpi (for paper) or 100 (for screen): e.g. fig.savefig(figsize=(8,8), dpi=300) Rescaling the figure is generally a bad idea for inclusion in a paper since it changes the font size as well. To get a nice output, you try to keep the same font size for both paper and figures, and the simplest was to do this is by avoiding rescaling. Cheers, David 2007/5/11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 11 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > apparently wrote: > > All I want is to: a) Insert all of the plots I create with > > MPL onto a Word document. > > This part should be achievable with PNG. > Just set the figsize. > I have not had problems... > Correct. I am doing that right now. However, because it's not vector based, if I start chaning the figure size, the quality suffers. > > b) Be able to cut and paste part of a MPL figure and > > insert that to Word > > You can select part of a PDF for copying to the clipboard > in Acrobat. > Been there, done that. Doesn't work. It selects the titles, and anotations. Doesn't select the graphs. > fwiw, > Alan Isaac > > > -- John Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- John Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
