Hi, is there a backend that supports 16bit tiff images? According to the website GDK supports tiff but that's wrong:
>>>import matplotlib >>>matplotlib.use('GDK') >>>import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot >>>pyplot.imsave(arr=X, fname='test.tif') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1425, in imsave return _imsave(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/image.py", line 813, in imsave fig.savefig(fname, dpi=1, format=format) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1033, in savefig self.canvas.print_figure(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 1420, in print_figure '%s.' % (format, ', '.join(formats))) ValueError: Format "tif" is not supported. Supported formats: emf, eps, pdf, png, ps, raw, rgba, svg, svgz. >>>matplotlib.backends.backend 'gdk' matplotlib 0.99.0 python 2.6.4 ubuntu karmic x64 If matplotlib cannot provide tiff support, does someone know an alternative? PIL doesn't work either, at least not intuitively. Cheers Philipp -- Philipp Lies Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Computational Vision & Neuroscience Group Spemannstr. 41 D-72076 Tuebingen Germany Phone: +49-7071-601-1788 Fax: +49-7071-601-552 E-Mail: philipp.l...@tuebingen.mpg.de http://www.kyb.mpg.de/bethgegroup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users