Yes, Me feel sad as well. But I don't think he wants to learn python and then matplotlib. He is not a computer professor after all.
Best Regards Shixin Zeng On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Nicolas Bigaouette<nbigaoue...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure everybody find this really sad... If he wants control over the > ploting capabilities, then why not have matplotlib and send him the script? > I know when I switched to matplotlib from matlab I wanted to be able to edit > directly the graph with point and click, but sometimes it is more powerful > or even easier to edit the script. > > If the changes are really small, you could always send him an SVG that he > edits in Inkscape. I do that sometimes. > There might be other open source plotting packages which are WYSIWYG, like > qtiplot. Please, please! don't go with excel ;) Its quality is so much lower > then any other software. > > 2009/9/3 Shixin Zeng <zeng.shi...@gmail.com> >> >> Forgot CC list. >> >> Thanks for your helps. >> >> Best Regards >> >> Shixin Zeng >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Shixin Zeng <zeng.shi...@gmail.com> >> Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM >> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] best format for MS word? >> To: Stan West <stan.w...@nrl.navy.mil> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Stan West<stan.w...@nrl.navy.mil> wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: Shixin Zeng [mailto:zeng.shi...@gmail.com] >> >> Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 16:11 >> >> >> >> While for embeding eps files in word, I've just tried that. MS word >> >> 2007 seems to have some problem on this. See the attached eps >> >> file produced from matplotlib. In MS word 2007, the labels >> >> and titles of axes are gone, even on the printed version of >> >> the word file. It's there when I view/print it with gsview. >> > >> > I don't have Word 2007, but I imported your file into Word 2003 and saw >> > that >> > the titles and labels were missing. I would blame that on shortcomings >> > of the >> > Word PS engine. When I printed to a non-PostScript printer, the titles >> > and >> > labels were missing as in your test; that doesn't surprise me, because >> > the >> > Word PS engine would be used to render for a non-PS printer. However, >> > when I >> > printed to PostScript devices (the Adobe PDF driver and the PDFCreator >> > driver), the titles and text were present; Word shouldn't invoke its PS >> > engine >> > when the printer understands PS. Is there any chance that you were >> > using a >> > non-PS printer, or that your printer has two or more modes (like the >> > Hewlett-Packard models that automatically switch between PCL and PS) and >> > you >> > were not using a PS driver? How about testing with PDFCreator? >> > >> > >> I'm not sure if my printer supports PS or not, it's Dell Laser 1320c, >> I couldn't find any information from its property page. >> >> I'm afraid that I'm giving up matplotlib for my paper plotting, since >> my professor wants me to do plotting with excel such that he doesn't >> have to ask me to do every small change on the plot if he could do it >> himself. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 >> 30-Day >> trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus >> on >> what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with >> Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
