Mac is kind of my blind spot, thanks for pointing out that EPS is a viable format there.
Windows does not handle the PS part of EPS for screen display. You will only see a preview image, and only if it was embedded into the EPS. Printing is be fine though, if you have a PS printer. Juergen Am 21.04.2014 15:38, schrieb Benjamin Root: > While SVG isn't supported, EPS is... sort of. Be very careful going between > windows and mac versions of Powerpoint. > While they both support EPS, they seem to do it differently and I have had to > make emergency fixes to presentations > while at conferences because they were using Windows and I only had access to > Linux and Macs at home. > > Cheers! > Ben Root > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Juergen Hasch <pyt...@elbonia.de > <mailto:pyt...@elbonia.de>> wrote: > > > No Powerpoint version I know supports SVG (or any vector graphics format > useful in this case) and Matplotlib does not > export WMF graphics anymore. So the easiest way is to use PNGs, if you > can live with raster graphics. > > Alternatively, if you need vector graphics, you can export the Matplotlib > plot as SVG and convert it to WMF or EMF using > Inkscape. This can be done in the command line like this: > > "c:\Program Files\Inkscape-0.48\inkscape.exe" --without-gui > --export-emf="output.emf" "input.svg" > > > Juergen > > > Am 21.04.2014 13 <tel:21.04.2014%2013>:06, schrieb Neal Becker: > > Make sure to save into a vector graphic format so it can be resized. > Try pdf or > > svg (don't know if M$ supports svg though) > > > > Paul Hobson wrote: > > > >> Sorry hit send by accident? > >> > >> What parameters are you passing to `savefig`? > >> > >> For a presentation, I would save as a .png file, a higher resolution > and a > >> transparent background. e.g.: > >> > >> fig.savefig('myfig.png', dpi=600, bbox_inches='ticht', > transparent=True) > >> > >> > >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Paul Hobson > >> <pmhob...@gmail.com <mailto:pmhob...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >>> What parameters are you passing to `savefig`? > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Chao YUE > >>> <chaoyue...@gmail.com <mailto:chaoyue...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Dear all, > >>>> > >>>> Did anyone try to make plots using matplotlib, and then put the > figure in > >>>> the powerpoint for presentation? Currently I am using the ipython > notebook > >>>> --pylab mode to make the plots, and then save them to *jpg format. > But when > >>>> I put it into the powerpoint, it does not look nice as I see on the > screen > >>>> (a little bit blurred). You can really not notice it if you don't > examine > >>>> carefully. But I really want to make high quality slides. 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