yes, Ben, I understand the difference now.
To Mike: I have to select the region of the figure I need in the pdf file
and paste it in the powerpoint ... Isn't this you're doing as well?
But fine, I can go with the current quality. Thanks to you all for this
discussion.
Cheers,
Chao
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> Yes, there is a difference if you use the button versus explicitly stating
> the dpi in a savefig call. When you use the button, matplotlib has to use
> the default dpi since there is no other way to specify it.
>
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Chao YUE <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, in fact I set dpi as 1000, which is already very high. In fact I
>> have another question, will there be any difference if I use the save
>> button on the interactive plotting toolbar and use the command line
>> figure.savefig('xx.png',dpi=1000)?
>>
>> Chao
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Jody Klymak <jkly...@uvic.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you set the dpi of the png?
>>>
>>> Cheers, Jody
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 21, 2014, at 13:50 PM, ChaoYue <chaoyue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, I tried but I don't really see the difference between jpg and png by
>>> my eyes in the attached case, maybe for other more complicated plots there
>>> will be real difference. Anyway, thanks to all for your nice discussions.
>>> And, BTW, I tried >2 hours trying to find a way to convert svg to emf, but
>>> now I konw :p
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Chao
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Benjamin Root-2 [via matplotlib] <[hidden
>>> email]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> JPGs will *always* have "bit blur" as it is a lossy image format. PNGs
>>>> would be a better bet.
>>>>
>>>> Ben Root
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM, ChaoYue <[hidden
>>>> email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=43265&i=0>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you all for your kind response. I am sorry, but none of these
>>>>> solutions significantly improved the visual quality on microsoft
>>>>> powerpiont
>>>>> 2007. Thought I didn't try eps. So probably l have to go with the current
>>>>> quality.
>>>>> here is a best case I have now:
>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0uhjogalz92hssm/different_figure_example.pptx
>>>>> You can still see the "a bit blur" everywhere (currently with jpg
>>>>> being inserted directly). I didn't have better quality than this one by
>>>>> trying the method as suggested by you. Let me know if I am raising too
>>>>> much
>>>>> high demand for this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Chao
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jonathan Slavin [via matplotlib] <[hidden
>>>>> email] <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=43264&i=0>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Another alternative, if a vector graphics format doesn't work, is to
>>>>>> make your png figure large. Then when you shrink it down to fit in your
>>>>>> slide, it should still have good resolution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jon
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:13 AM, <[hidden
>>>>>> email]<http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=43262&i=0>
>>>>>> > 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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