On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Jouni K. Seppänen <j...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> "Nils Wagner" <nwag...@iam.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
>>
>> > just curious - is the WebP format supported by matplotlib
>>
>> No. It seems to be a method for lossy compression of photographs and
>> therefore not likely to be useful for line drawings - or what did you
>> have in mind?
>
> And yet, we still allow for saving to jpegs.

Only some of the non-agg backends support saving to jpegs. Whenever
someone posts to the list asking why jpegs are not supported, the
answer is that, aside from not being supported by agg, lossy formats
like jpeg are a poor choice for saving line art.

Darren

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